While acts of violence may be trending upward due to our penchant for incendiary political discourse, the national conversation quickly moved to claim that the beloved Arizona congresswoman might be our unfortunate sacrificial lamb for setting things right.

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One face we did not see tonight was that of our friend and colleague, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona.

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So even as outrage is sparked over shootings such as that of Trayvon Martin in Florida and former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, there is little appetite for gun-control legislation.

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Jared Louhner reportedly spent most of his time playing violent computer games before gunning down six, including a U.S. judge and Congresswoman Gabby Gifford outside an Arizona Safeway.

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High-capacity magazines were used in the Tucson, Arizona shooting that killed six and wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, as well as by the rogue Army major Nidal Hassan in the Fort Hood murders.

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The larger-sized ammo clips were used, for instance, by rogue Army Major Nidal Hasan and the Tucson, Arizona shootings that killed six people and wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

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Among those new faces is Gabrielle Giffords, the Democratic congresswoman elect from the eighth district of Arizona.

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There is a chance that the Arizona tragedy, which included the death of a child and the serious injury to a Congresswoman among its horrors, was just the kind of atrocity Congress needed to get serious about limiting gun ownership.

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