There can be so many things to discuss surrounding this tragic event that happened in Arizona this past Saturday. I want to take this opportunity to focus on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her attempted assassin, Jared Loughner. First thing I would like to share, just for basic information, is Giffords's father is the first cousin to Bruce Paltrow (his daughter is actress, Gwyneth Paltrow). Kind of interesting in general. Also, Giffords was raised in a mixed religious background.
Her father being Jewish and her mother a follower of Christian-Science. Giffords identified herself with Judaism since 2001 and is Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman. With this in mind, I wonder if her attempted killer may have any Anti-Semitic beliefs, such as the Nazis or so forth? This is just a thought for what it's worth but I don't think any of the media is covering all bases. It's all becoming political by the minute from the 'conservative vs. liberal' talk to the questions of the Second Amendment and gun ownership.
Allow me just to give a brief thought of why this guy, Jared Lee Loughner, did something like this. I know the psycho-analysts blame a lack of self-esteem but they are totally wrong as usual. You see, when someone relentlessly shoots at people (including a 9 year old girl) it's not about self-esteem, it's about SELFISHNESS! He has no care in the world about anyone else but himself and responded out of his disappointments of life by taking the lives of others. The Bible teaches us 'esteem' but not SELF-esteem. It teaches OTHER-esteem! As Philippians 2:3 says, "...let each esteem other better than themselves."
But there's another opinion I have of why Loughner went after Giffords which I did my own piecing together and could be entirely wrong which I humbly accept. Loughner could have been infatuated with Congresswoman Giffords, like one of those stalkers who doesn't want anyone else to have her. It has been revealed today that at his home, he had a letter stored in a safe that goes back to Novemeber of 2007 which was from Giffords's campaign inviting him to a similar event that took place this past Saturday. It was also discovered in the safe that Loughner wrote his plans of an attempted assassination mentioning phrases like "I'm planning ahead", "assasination", and the name "Giffords."
I find it sort of strange that November 2007 is the same month and year when Giffords married astronaut Mark Kelly (November 10, 2007 to be exact). Was Loughner obsessed with Giffords and did this act out of a jealous rage? I don't know, but in the meantime let's pray for her and the families of the victims who lost their lives.
