I Would Very Much Like an Alternative Explanation of This...
UPDATE: And a bunch are provided in comments. That makes me rest considerably easier--and happier. A lone gunman is always hte best scenario to confront...
Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva are both Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Arizona. On Tuesday January 4 the number of hits on the "Gabrielle Giffords" page on Wikipedia began to rise. The number of hits on the "Raul Grijalva" page did not. By Friday January 7 more than three times as many people were looking at Gabrielle Giffords's Wikipedia page than had done so in a normal day in the previous month and a half.
On Saturday January 8, of course, six people were murdered in the course of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords.
Please give me an explanation of this so that I can stop being a nutbar conspiracy theorist...