BREAKING! Congressman Steve Scalise, Aides shot at baseball practice

[skeeter]

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

I ain't a betting man,but I will be willing to bet the house on it being a nutjob.

Absolutely its a nutjob - a nutjob motivated by overheated political rhetoric.

[austingirl]

FBI guy: pursuing all avenues- no, it was not an assassination attempt.

[catfish1957]

or a random nutjob like the guy who shot giffords.

Since the perp in question asked the party affiliation of his victims, I think we can safely take the "random" card off the table.

[Sanguine]

FBI guy: pursuing all avenues- no, it was not an assassination attempt.

Yeah, I love that one: "we don't know what it was, but we know what it wasn't".  Huh?

[sneakypete]

Female Cap Hill Police Officer took the shooter down...she was shot in her ankle...and still returned fire..

@mystery-ak

Good for her! Let's just hope she is lucky enough the ankle injury will heal and she won't be forced into retirement. Chances are she is "going out with a bang",though. Los of tiny bones and nerves in a ankle,and a bullet can cause a lot of damage.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Since the perp in question asked the party affiliation of his victims, I think we can safely take the "random" card off the table.

Now that is interesting. I may be wrong.

[mystery-ak]

FBI guy: pursuing all avenues- no, it was not an assassination attempt.

...a stupid response....then what the hell was it!

[Sanguine]

Since the perp in question asked the party affiliation of his victims, I think we can safely take the "random" card off the table.

Agreed.

[austingirl]

FBI guy: pursuing all avenues- no, it was not an assassination attempt.

Now FBI guy says he misspoke and it is too early to say if assassination. He claimed to be unaware of perp asking party affiliation of victims.

[Wingnut]

@Wingnut

Yes. One Republican is quoted as saying they had been meeting there to practice for at least a month.

@sneakypete
THX! 

[Idiot]

@DiogenesLamp

And there you have it. Anybody that claims anything else is just trying to tap dance away from an uncomfortable truth.

I lay this at the feet of people like Late Night comedian Cobert, who spews hate for half his show EVERY NIGHT.

[mystery-ak]

 Oliver Darcy‏Verified account @oliverdarcy 4m4 minutes ago

FBI: "Too early to tell if they were targeted or not"

Political motivation? FBI special agent says "not aware of that at all"
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Oliver Darcy‏Verified account @oliverdarcy 2m2 minutes ago

"We are not sure at this moment," FBI special agent says, noting that "it's too early in the investigation to say one way or another"
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[sneakypete]

[quote| author=austingirl link=topic=267268.msg1356624#msg1356624 date=1497449957]
Some ugly stuff on Twitter from the left- talking about karma for "NRA Tea Party" Scalise. Also calling for gun control, of course.
[/quote]

@austingirl

I would be surprised if that wasn't the case.

[mountaineer]

... 'This kind of mindless violence must stop,' California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in a statement that hinted at her longstanding support for gun-control laws.

'Im dedicated to doing all I can to putting an end to these senseless tragedies.'

On the other side of the aisle, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said he doesn't know who the shooter is 'or how he got a gun.'

'We've got plenty of gun laws,' Graham told a Bloomberg reporter. 'I own a gun. I don't go around shooting people with it.'

'People get shot, run over by cars, stabbed, it's just a crazy world,' he said. 'If we had that debate it'd end like it always ends. We're not going to tell law-abiding people they can't own a gun because of some nut-job.'

'One thing I hope we'll all do is just watch our words a little bit,' Graham added. 'Knock down the rhetoric. That'd be a good thing.'  ...

Daily Mail (U.K.)

[Restored]

Since the perp in question asked the party affiliation of his victims, I think we can safely take the "random" card off the table.

I don't think they have determined it was the same guy. Maybe an accomplice?

[ABX]

Since the perp in question asked the party affiliation of his victims, I think we can safely take the "random" card off the table.

If true.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Rep. DeSantis who at baseball practice recalls: “A guy...walked up to us that was asking whether it was Republicans or Democrats out there.” pic.twitter.com/GwozCPRdve— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 14, 2017

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials. Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home inspection business. His home inspection license expired in November 2016 and was not renewed, state records show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2017/live-updates/public-safety/updates-shooting-at-congressional-baseball-practice-in-virginia/shooter-named-as-james-t-hodgkinson/?utm_term=.fa1e5573555f

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

Bernie Bro looks like?

[skeeter]

The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials. Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home inspection business. His home inspection license expired in November 2016 and was not renewed, state records show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2017/live-updates/public-safety/updates-shooting-at-congressional-baseball-practice-in-virginia/shooter-named-as-james-t-hodgkinson/?utm_term=.fa1e5573555f

A quick look at Mr Hodgkinson's Facebook page kinda clears up the question of whether this shooting was politically motivated.

[endicom]

Female Cap Hill Police Officer took the shooter down...she was shot in her ankle...and still returned fire..

Someone you'd want with you in that foxhole.

[mountaineer]

From the Facebook page WTF referenced above:


 T. Hodgkinson
March 22 ·
Change.org
·

Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.

[andy58-in-nh]

@andy58-in-nh

What makes you so sure the shooter wasn't the "designated hitter"?

For all we know, he might be a "switch hitter"...

[sneakypete]

Nope, we know very little right now, and the speculation is at best premature.

@HorseHillary!

Kathy Griffin was all over the tv and the news after holding up a fake Trump head dripping blood on tv,and LOTS of lefties have been and are defending her.

You can't possibly be so blind you haven't see or heard about that.

[EC]

Assuming they've ID'd the right guy -

FB pages he's liked:
   
The GOP Left Me, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Best Video You Will Ever See, Tom Perriello, Hillary Clinton 2016, Rolling Stone, Bitecharge Buzz, Dan Rather, InspireMore, Our Voice, Dump Trump, Udemy, Pet Videos Daily, Newslo, Mr. Catfyshand more