Prayers, tears, but also defiance: America looks horrified to Tucson, Arizona, Barack Obama wants to donate during a visit to reconciliation - but the city gets the grief work hard. The trade of weapons goes on, the head of the local tea party talks himself into a rage again. When the tears come, they stretched up her plate, she then hides behind almost.Susan Shobe has come very close to the small memorial on the lawn of the University Medical Center in Tucson, her two children nestled close to her. Inside the hospital is fighting the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for her life, yet no one knows whether they will survive the shot in the head without damage you deal the assassin Jared Lee Loughner on Saturday morning.
Outside the grass mourns Shobe to Giffords that she was courageous, but also fired at the father of her good friend, one of the 20 people on the Loughner. "Think of the victims," Shobe has written on her plate, the children in the morning helped to paint the letters. "Love thy neighbor" is among them, even if you disagree it.
And: "Stop the hate." "We are a mecca of hatred and prejudice have become," Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said shortly after the attack on the political climate in Arizona, the rate was about the whole world. Shobe was afraid the sentence, and therefore the 38-year-old housewife is now time for the beginning of the national minute of silence for the victims outside the hospital in Tucson.
Small teddy bears on the lawn in front of her pink heart-shaped balloons, someone has painted a poster on which the peace sign is seen next to a broken cross. An allusion to the cross hairs, which had ex-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to protest against Democratic supporters of Obama called health care reform - including victims of assassination against Giffords.
Minute's silence is only under: Shobe stands almost alone as the minute's silence. Although many people they surround, but they are all most of them reporters. They stalk each visitor to the memorial which is not a colleague. But there are quite a few. As a local father of his daughter in a pink jacket pushes forward to the teddy bear, rises up like a micro-ring in his face.
For Shobe is a problem because she wants to show their fellow citizens their poster not the journalists. For most reporters, it is rather none. It is indeed above all to the subject, the bright Hospital building with Giffords' hospital bed in the background. A few yards behind Shobe have built the Moderatn the U.S.
evening news, the most famous television faces of the nation, from ABC, CBS, NBC. And CNN, of course. They all want this picture in her back, this setting. So get in front of the hospital, no one quite know when the moment of silence begins now actually. The reporter continued chatting, the camera people call instructions.
At some point probably be over the minute, as the well-known TV faces are no longer visible, they have been wegeskortiert by their assistants. Tucson has become the backdrop for a national debate on the political culture of America. But the price could be high, then it threatens to stay icon.
As a city where violence instead of arguments are, where hatred is stronger than ideas. But the revolt of the decent against such an image can be seen in more slowly in the 600,000-inhabitant city, all attempts by people like Shobe notwithstanding. At the memorial, as the street corner in front of Giffords' constituency office costs, although yellow signs, peace, love, unity and respect urging.
But even here, lost on Monday during the day only a few dozen mourners. "Many people have to digest this shock first time," speculates Terry Moan, a retired environmental scientist who helped Giffords' election campaigns. But digest it? That resided in their midst a madman? Jared Lee Loughner, it is now known, has long been troubled people, such as a student at the nearby Pima Community College.
His math teacher Ben McGahee reported that he had always feared that Loughner bring a weapon into the classroom, "he was crazy." Obviously, he was fixated on Giffords, reportedly the 22-year-old assassin felt from her during a meeting in 2007 badly treated. It would be a simple solution to Tucson, Loughner to stamp the demons.
Lighter than the debate in any case, how such a disturbed man could walk a few months ago in the Sportsman's Warehouse and buy a gun was a handy 9-millimeter Glock-19th The shop is still open, powerful horns hang on the walls of the huge shopping arcade, the "Bragging Wall" near the entrance, customers can show off their best hunting shots, a SIG-522 rifle is on offer, instead of $ 399 649th A sign at the output lists which weapons you can buy at 18, including 21 which only But it is, each customer would study the warranty carefully before buying, which is probably more important.
The employees at the state arms are good deals, they advise buying two willing couples. Answer questions they do not want. The boss has forbidden it. Obama flies to Arizona "We need to have fewer guns, not more," said Giffords' former campaign aides Moan. Long ago he fought for stricter gun laws.
But he also knows how powerful the gun lobby in Arizona. In 2009 it has succeeded in ensuring that citizens are now allowed to appear armed in bars and restaurants. Giffords politician also knew that they themselves had a gun - just the model with which they killed nearly Loughner. "I am a pretty good shooter," she boasted in an interview.
Whether there is at least come to a rhetorical disarmament, against the "reload" rhetoric of Palin? The duration of the radical protests such as tea party movement against moderate politicians such as Giffords. They were so vehemently that her father complained to the fact that his daughter had had many enemies: "the whole tea party movement." Their representatives will have none.
"We have never called for violence, and the assassin was never anything to do with us," says Trent Humphries, 37, becomes gray, three children, he owns a small computer store for two years, he is active as a co-founder of Tucson-Tea party. He, too, grieve, says Humphries, he was aware of some of the victims.
"Republicans are such acts as bad as Democrats" on a sign in front of Giffords' office. But the blanket condemnations of people like Palin, which should benefit those who ask Humphries. And what is with the hate mail in which one owning it now, to have blood on his hands. How are the civil, then? Humphries talks himself into a rage, it almost sounds as if inviting after a new, two days after the shooting.
Did not Obama once said that the next time he brought with a gun to deal with his opponents be? "What would have been if someone had fired shortly thereafter at an event to Republicans?" The President has announced for Wednesday in Tucson, to a memorial service, he probably wants to remind Americans what America has made large and united.
Susan Shobe will also listen closely, it has not given up hope. "Of course I believe that it happens in our civilian again. Otherwise I would not even American."
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