ina and oracle. where gabrielle giffords was. and i do believe gabby giffords was hit. that was a 911 call from the day congresswoman gabby giffords was shot at a rally in tucson, arizona. well, now more than two years later authorities have released new information about that day. they released thousands of documents that offer vivid details about the gunman, jared lee loughner. and our brian todd has actually been poring over these documents. here s what he found. reporter: early morning, january 8th, 2011, jared lee loughner is stopped for running a red light in tucson, arizona. state fish and game officer alan thorny lectures loughner on his driving. loughner seems to break down. i said i won t write you a citation for this forney says later in a statement to investigators and when i said that to him his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. forney asks if loughner is okay. loughner replies, yeah. i m okay. i ve just had a rough time, and
i really thought i was going to get a ticket. loughner is sent on his way. just a couple hours later he went in, he just started firing, and then he ran. jared lee loughner kills six people, wounds congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 12 others at a safeway in tucson. we re getting new details of the incident in thousands of pages of documents just released by the pima county sheriff s department. a judge had kept them under seal until now, concerned they would prevent jared loughner from getting a fair trial. just after the shootings, a witness described how he and others subdued loughner. i held my legs behind his knees and my arm on the back of his small of his back and another guy was stepping on his neck. reporter: but in the new documents he says one good samaritan did more than that, threatening to kill loughner with loughner s own gun. the other gentleman was holding the pistol. he said, i ll tell you, you [ bleep ] to the guy on the ground saying i ll kel kill you. i
as you can see here with nra lobbyist mary ann deamer peering down his neck as he signed it. two other states have laws similar to familiar and the nra wants a flal law to force this on states around the country that don t want it. that s the way gun politics works, all the i think whats of law go in the same direction. all the changes in law go towards more guns in more places and more legal excuses for shooting people. and once one state stakes out what used to be radical ground in terms of clearing the way for more guns and legal excuses for shooting, once one state clear that is ground like florida in 2005, as soon as one state goes there, all the other states rush toward the newly-cleared ground. i was one of the people that thought after tucson, we could have one tiny little tick toward regulating just the size of the magazines for ammunition in the handguns. as a tiny correction for a nation that was legit gnatly
shocked by the horror of tucson. i thought that would happen after tucson. gun law changes only go in one direction. the florida state senate president says now in the midst of the national uproar over the trayvon martin shooting and florida s gun law says the shooter can t be arrested, he says the florida senate will not be reviewing the law. usually on policy issues like this we say, what would it take? what would it take to make us look at this issue differently? what would it take to shock us out of a pattern that we are in? what would it take to swing the pendulum back now that it has swung so radically in one direction? what would it take? we have an answer, it doesn t matter, anything could happen, it doesn t matter. no matter what happens in the country in terms of gun violence or how we feel about it, there s no outcry enough, no shock or horror that is too grave. we do not get to make these decisions about our laws in this country. we do not get to make these decisions about
likes we haven t seen before. this is an explosive story on so many levels to say the least. thank you. new this morning the fbi is reviewing surveillance video taken outside that safeway in tucson. they took the video into possession as evidence. this video shows the shooting as it happened. we re hearing more positive signs on the condition of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. on meet the press senator gillibrand said giffords was able to open her eyes, and senator gillibrand chs in the hospital room the first time it happened. when the president said that, the room erupted. these are her constituents, they love her. they see her recovery as a story of triumph over terrible happenings. so she s really someone who because of her courage and strength, she can overcome this. being in the room at the time was an extraordinary moment, a