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Shooting at GOP baseball practice, multiple injured incl/ Maj. Whip Scalise
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water_wendi
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It is America so it could just be a run of the mill public shooting.
GoldenEye 007
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Hope the local officers and aides have a speedy recovery.
Laevateinn
Member
Reagan supported gun control because black panthers stood in front of the California Capitol Building.
Can you quote/point the people cheering this? Listen man, there is a difference between understanding cause of extreme actions like this and full on being for it. I am not for something like this, but I find it hard to sympathize since I would of likely been one to be kicked off health insurance if GOP got their way.
Once they sympathize with 20 million people they were willing to let lose health insurance, I will sympathize when some angry person decides to kill them for it.
Yeah. Expect this to be the line going forward. As mentioned before, I hope it doesn't cause some type of bill to try to pass that cracks down on media criticizing Trump & the Republican administration.
This has to be politically motivated...to much of a coincidence otherwise.
Wait till some of the Draconian measures (like healthcare) the GOP plans to implement start taking effect. In a country where its easier to get a gun then to vote the GOP will have millions of desperate people armed to the teeth to worry about.
Wait till some of the Draconian measures (like healthcare) the GOP plans to implement start taking effect. In a country where its easier to get a gun then to vote the GOP will have millions of desperate people armed to the teeth to worry about.
Cymbal Head
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This is depressingly correct.
It's a miracle that more people weren't hurt. 50 bullets is really significant and it is extremely poor shooting/luck that only three people were hit.
Edit: 50 in a rifle is a lot.
No, it wasn't till after his presidency that he supported gun control, and it was mostly due to his wife.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Darryl M R
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Good point; also I'm thinking as if the attacker used a hand gun with a smaller mag/clip/idk.
Oh how it is insane how fucked up this whole thing is
That events like this are so common in the States that terms like 'regular mass shooting' appear at all.
This whole story is fake news anyway. It's a hoax. Paid actors.
No. It was politically motivated. One of the people leaving said the person identified as the shooter asked if it were Democrats or Republicans on the field. Now it's possible he the shooter would've opened fire either way but I think that's unlikely.
shnurgleton
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Is this the Reichstag fire event the left has been foreshadowing since the election?
Shake Appeal
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I mean if I had to wildly speculate, and if what Mo Brooks said is true—that the shooter asked whether the players were Republicans or Democrats before opening fire—my guess would be the shooter is someone badly affected by the AHCA.
No.
efyu_lemonardo
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We need to know a bit more before coming to such conclusions. How far was the shooter? What kind of sights was he using? What were the conditions around him during the shooting?
50 rounds fired doesn't mean 50 carefully placed shots on unsuspecting targets. That number could be closer to 5 in a realistic scenario.
I am going to assume he was really only after that congressman until details say otherwise and was unwilling to kill others. I could be completely wrong of course, but that is what I am assuming since as you pointed out, he could have killed/injured many more people if it wasn't targeted.
Good on him if he's a civilian taking down the shooter. Fuck the shooter.
Lightning_Roller
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I'm gonna echo the people who said this was tragic, but inevitable. The GOP are slowly day by day pushing the common people into a really tight corner with their horrible laws and as the saying goes, put someone in a corner, they'll come out swinging.
Shake Appeal
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He was a member of Scalise's security detail.
Twitter says
"2ND CONGRESSMAN SHOT: Rep. Roger Williams also hit"
https://twitter.com/foxnewsalert/status/874971442756165632
"2ND CONGRESSMAN SHOT: Rep. Roger Williams also hit"
https://twitter.com/foxnewsalert/status/874971442756165632
I believe the 'twist' being referenced is that of Scalise, a white supremacist, being saved from a white shooter by a black guy
Orbis Tabula
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I'm gonna go way out on a limb and say no, this is not some false flag from Republicans to consolidate power. Let's not turn into Alex Jones.
water_wendi
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ive seen comments about how someone asked who was on the field but havent seen that the person asking was identified as the shooter.
The Jackdog
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lots of fucking weird justifications for human beings being shot and potentially killed here without
1. knowing motive
2. knowing anything
3. any semblance of human decency.
I hope a lot of you know you sound just like the people who said giffords deserved it. its pretty pathetic how partisan some of you are while claiming to not be.
1. knowing motive
2. knowing anything
3. any semblance of human decency.
I hope a lot of you know you sound just like the people who said giffords deserved it. its pretty pathetic how partisan some of you are while claiming to not be.
Shooter is white?
Tal Shiar Agent
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Maybe that was the point.
The GOP needs to be brought to task through the courts and elections, not by bullets. I'm glad that no one was killed, I hope that doesn't change and everyone injured makes a full recovery.
I got that part, just I wouldn't be surprised if this was a civilian. White supremacy or not, the African American in a position to do something I'd hope they would do it.
I thought he was one of the ones shot?
Hickbilly Deluxe
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Apparently. Bunch of sick people.
Was he? I just read he was in custody. I would assume that they'd say he's being brought to a hospital had he been shot.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
#breaking from @CBSThisMorning Just in: suspected shooter reportedly had a M4 assault rifle and pistol. He is in custody.
https://twitter.com/michellekiro7/status/874973027028611072
https://twitter.com/michellekiro7/status/874973027028611072
Darryl M R
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I agree with your thought, but I think you have an underlying implication that the shooter is/was not a Republican. I'm not quite sure that is true, and I would not be shocked if the shooter does lean Right. People still got shot but I don't think mobilizing a base of radicals is the absolute next step until more information is revealed.
TheLostBigBoss
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water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i dont think this shooting in particular will spark anything off. id say once deranged people notice that social media provides endless soft target opportunities and we have a couple massacres things will change. Something like that is coming though.
The point was he brought more. It wasn't just somebody concealed carrying or something.
TheCochese
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Exactly. The best hope, strictly politically, is this is a guy with a Republican voting background.
Even then, you can guess what the narrative will be. I do think this might lead to less rights for the media, or at least the attempt. Because you know that is and will be the narrative from the far right, and guess who really controls the people in power right now?
Just to be absolutely clear: this sort of thing can't happen and I don't advocate for it.
Sho_Nuff82
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Similar occurances have happened before where right wing militants have been spun as left wing loons. In any case, it's not like it's hard to sell a narrative on some random lunatic.
Not that I expect more from Trump, but if he co-opts this to push partisan bullshit that will be geuinely dangerous and I hope it doesn't happen. I can't imagine the GOP, at least in Congress, Will leap to use this as a cudgel against anyone against them. Giffords set the example in how to handle this.