Gabe has always been articulate, loyal and dedicated when representing the Congresswoman. It makes me very sad to think the meeting in which I last saw him had become rather acrimonious as it was a very sensative issue.  Even with our opposing views at the time, I liked him and have always had great respect and admiration for him.
It is terribly tragic that the life of such a fine young gentleman with such promise was cut short in his prime.  Yes, he will be missed and I’m heartsick for his colleagues who will definately face a painful void in their daily lives.
Aloha, Gabe!

Your always a class act Carolyn. Well done.

The Three Sonorans is reporting that the nutjob Kansas Minister may be picketing the funerals. May I suggest that thousands of Tucson citizens surround each of their picketers (about 300 for each picketer) and just just walk in a direction. Any direction.
The nutjobs from Kansas cannot come here in this stressful time and defacate on our community.

If you are a real reporter, then maybe you should cut through the innuendo and get out the straight skinny on this.  The Feds are in this for a reason.  They know there isn’t any death penalty in the Ninth Circuit.  Now the judge was coming from church service, and couldn’t have been on Gov’t business.  So the prosecutor is over-reaching here.  But what if Gabe became the ‘musta die’ figure, when Jared  saw that Gabe knew who he was?  When and how could they have previously interacted?   As a social worker, Gabe would have had the inside track, if he had tried to help Jared, sometime earlier.  He was circulating in Tucson, and he had the right training to spot mental illness.  If Jared’s high power lawyer, jumps in with some defense, that it was a personal issue, she may just get the whole trial put into State Court, and out of Federal Jurisdiction.  But then it’s stuck back in the Ninth Circuit.  Tim McVeigh never got this break, and he was executed by the Feds, in short order.  Do you want any less for Jared?  Realistically, only the Congresswoman and an aide or two, could have reasonably I.D.’d Jared, from previous inter-actions.  So those two witnesses may have had to be eliminated first.  The little girl was just in the wrong place.  But that leaves only two dead, and the husband jumped into the line of fire to save his wife.  So, out of all the shooting, only the Congresswoman, and Gabe seem to be precision targets.  But which of these two were the must die first?  With all his firepower, and nearly 100 rounds of ammo, he should have been able to brush everyone down to the ground, and simply walk away.  But he didn’t count on the adrenalin rush of the little lady who jumped all over him after being shot.   Fortunately, she disabled his Glocker.   And this extended clip is properly known as a detachable magazine.  This over priced, Austrian plastic wonder,  just isn’t up to being tricked out this way. IMHO, he aimed twice, and then just sprayed away. “Aim small, miss small”, from the Mel Gibson movie,  “The Patriot”, and you’d have had about a dozen, or more deaths,  at that gathering.  The hit on that poor little girl, was like an adult being shot with a .357 magnum, or 45 auto.

I knew when I heard the name Gabe Zimmerman that it sounded familar and not until an old co-worker called me to inform me it was the Gabe we use to work with at Arizona’s Children.  We all loved Gabe and he was a great person to staff, and especially the youths.  He touched many hearts and this tragic event was enough to hear about and now hits hearder because I knew Gabe professionally.