NorCal Reps Say Tucson Shooting Won't Stop Public Events
PETALUMA (AP) -- California members of the House of Representatives say the shooting of their colleague in Tucson won't deter them from holding public events.
Democrats Lynn Woolsey of Petaluma and Mike Thompson of St. Helena said they would not react in fear to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Gifford.
Woolsey said from her home in Petaluma that she would continue to hold public forums and that such incidents should not be allowed to undermine the democratic process.
Thompson called Gifford a friend and said he had last seen her at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.
The shooting outside a Safeway supermarket Saturday morning badly wounded Gifford and left six others dead.
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