Sarah Palin Reportedly Had Gabrielle Giffords on a Target List
It is unknown at this time why Jared Lee Loughner shot Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, along with about seventeen others, including a chile and federal judge John Roll who died from their wounds.
However, many are drawing the comparison between Sarah Palin's Target List and the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Tuscon Arizona today.
Giffords was on the list of people Palin wanted unseated during the midterm elections, and after releasing this map, including Gabrielle Giffords, Palin tweeted, "Don't retreat, instead RELOAD
In the minutes following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and members of her staff, the website operated by Sarah Palin that illustrated Gifford's 8th district with gun crosshairs drawn on a map was scrubbed from the internet.
The site, TakeBackThe20.com, was operating normally at 1:07 CST when I connected to obtain an image of the crosshairs map:
When I connected approximately one hour later at 2:10 PM, the site had been replaced with a webserver error, meaning that the webserver was answering but that the content upon it an hour earlier was not being served
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While material on the site including the aformementioned map can be found elsewhere on Facebook and Twitter and other web sites, at press time, no image of the site was found in The Internet Archive at archive