After January's Tucson shooting, members of Congress are calling for extra security measures ranging from assigning personal security details to encasing the House gallery in bulletproof glass. But a group of Arizona state lawmakers is proposing a bill that would make it easier for citizens to carry guns inside government buildings in the Grand Canyon State.

The "Firearms Omnibus Bill," sponsored by Republican Sen. Ron Gould of Havasu City, would loosen a range of laws regulating firearms in a state already considered to be one of the most gun-friendly in the nation. Arizona's reputation was cemented last year after Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a measure allowing Arizonans to carry concealed weapons without a special permit - a leniency that has drawn fire from gun control activists.

If passed, the Firearms Omnibus Bill, or Senate Bill 1201, would change the wording in Arizona's concealed carry law to make allowances for people who, for example, forget that they are carrying a weapon and accidentally tell an officer they aren't armed. (read more)

America has been going through something of a political time-warp in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre.

The public discussion again and again harkens back to the mid-1990s when the Oklahoma City bombing spurred the American elite to a lengthy discussion about the rise of radicals on the right. Reporters and analysts this week have endlessly reprised the arguments of 15 years ago.

Will President Obama's memorial speech at the University of Arizona evoke Bill Clinton's mix of sympathy and political accusation in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing? Is a toxic political climate to blame for setting off a madman? Are conservative opinion mongers to blame?

Even some of the faces are the same.

Sarah Palin was a 31-year-old city councilwoman in Wasilla, Alaska when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. And Glenn Beck, also 31 at the time, was a morning show host at a Top 40 radio station in Connecticut. Neither could have imagined that they would one day be blamed for the attempted murder of a congresswoman.

But in evidence of what must be the most successful career in radio broadcasting since Guglielmo Marconi, Rush Limbaugh has managed to be blamed for both McVeigh's atrocious attack and an assassination attempt on a congresswoman 15 years apart. (read more)