Sarah Palin Target List
Sarah Palin released a target list in 2010 featuring Democratic representatives, including Gabrielle Giffords, whose district was marked with crosshairs. After Giffords was shot in 2011, critics linked the shooting to Palin's inflammatory rhetoric. Giffords herself had previously criticized the target map, saying such imagery could have consequences. While the motives of the shooter are unknown, some argue heated political rhetoric from Palin and others may have influenced him.