Martin writes that political partisanship had not previously reached the point of gunfire terror.  How soon he forgets.  Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat member of the House of Representatives from Arizona, on January 8, 2011, just a week into her third term,  was a victim of an assassination attempt near Tucson,[at a Safeway supermarket where she was meeting publicly with constituents. She was critically injured by a gunshot wound to the head;[ a total of thirteen people were injured and six others were killed in the shooting, among them federal judge John Roll and a 9-year-old child, Christina-Taylor Green.