Early twenties, or late teens? Automatic weapon? Sounds like a drug cartel hit.

But hold onto your guns folks, congress is going to defend themselves the only way they know how, by curtailing our rights.

All murder is tragedy, this is not more or less tragic than the young black street drug dealer gunned down by a rival, ALL murder is wrong - but this was a congresscritter - so you know it's going to get a lot more attention than the normal murder. Whenever an elite member of society dies, police departments soil themselves in getting the investigation done.

While I think it's appropriate for us gun owners to decry the crime and dwell on it, remember that she and other members of the crowd SHOULD have been able to stop this madman with their own firearms.

I can see several billion being allotted for congress to hire themselves a few thousand personal bodyguards.

It does seem like she violated a big rule of security, as, apparently, she had held this same type of meeting in that exact spot several times before.

Throughout the history of this land congress members have been murdered by someone who disagrees with them, but our country is in a unique situation at this moment with massive federal government programs to combat 'terrorism' - this will shift our paradigm greatly.

but speaking politically, while I may have despised her elitist stance on things, I'm an American and there are ways to protest someone's political record in the USA - this murderer clearly wasn't an American in any sense that I recognize.