Arizona Violence from European Point of View

EUROPEANS ARE EATING IT UP -- They’ve always been fascinated with American gun violence. Throw in the West, plus a good-looking congresswoman, and the story got huge, immediate play in the Brit papers:

--The Sunday Telegraph, “US Democrat is shot in head as 'loner' kills six”: “The attack immediately focused attention on the shrill political climate in the US. Miss Giffords had narrowly beaten off a tough challenge in November’s congressional elections by a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, she had previously received death threats and her offices had been shot at. … Another chilling twist was the presence of John Roll, a district judge, among the dead. … The Congresswoman, who is Jewish, is a gun-owner and supporter of the right to bear arms. … It is believed to be the first time that a woman politician has been the object of an assassination attempt in America, a country where elected leaders have often been the subject of attacks.”

--The (London) Sunday Times, top of page, with half-page-wide photo of Giffords: “Congresswoman shot as gunman goes on rampage.”

--The tabloid Mail on Sunday: “18 SHOT IN SAFEWAY MASSACRE.”