@Smokin Joe
One of the nutbag blogs is suggesting Scalise was the deliberate target - because he was working on stamping out human trafficking.
I don't pretend to know, I'm just asking questions.
If Scalise was the the closest on the field, maybe it was dumb luck on the part of the shooter, and bad luck on Scalise's part. Maybe.
Scalise had an important role to play, and to get the House pubbies on board with the plan
du jour was part of his job. There are things about the man which would single him out to be a higher profile target and that is just one.
Considering the opposition has been 'community organizing' since the '60s, and the most recent administration's strongest defense is that their conspiracies and scandals read like overly contrived spy novel plots, the question remains of whether this was a 'hit' hidden in the nutcase meme. That question will remain, as far as I am concerned, until proven otherwise.
What better way to get your enemy to let their guard down than to convince them that they are not all under attack, that it was just some lone nutter. In the meantime the 'pundits' of the Left are calling for more blood...