USA Today: Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik's blunt comments about the political atmosphere in Arizona have attracted attention from the left and right. Hours after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head during a Tucson rampage, Dupnik called Arizona "a mecca for prejudice and bigotry" and blasted "vitriol" in today's political rhetoric.
On Sunday, the sheriff at the center of the shooting investigation seemed to go after the state's gun laws. Dupnik also took after campaign finance laws that allow ads against a candidate to be made without disclosing donors, in an interview with Fox News.