What we know is that Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot by an assailant during a baseball practice in suburban Virginia. Everything else is speculation for now.
- “Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., told Fox News he left just before the shooting. As he walked to his car, a man asked DeSantis if it was Republicans or Democrats practicing. About three minutes the shooting began, DeSantis said.”
- Ignorant progressives immediately scream for gun control; it’s okay for their side to politicize tragic events.
- Assailant identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, IL. Hm, here is a Facebook page for a James T. Hodgkinson. May or may not be the same guy.
- “Hodgkinson has a varied arrest record in St. Clair County, for offenses such as failing to obtain electrical permits, damaging a motor vehicle, resisting a peace officer, eluding police, criminal damage to property, driving under the influence and assorted traffic offenses?
- Belonged to many anti-Republican hate groups on FaceBook, wrote hate-letters to the liberal media about Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, was part of a “99%” protest against the 1%.
- Leftist New Republic contributor: “If the shooter has a serious health condition then is taking potshots at the GOP house leadership considered self defense?”
- Progressive twitterverse explodes with joy-rage over shooting of Republican. (Post now updated under category ‘Violence on the Left’).
- The would-be mass-murderer has assumed room temperature. Another tragic victim of “gun violence,” I guess. The good news is, as a resident of Illinois, Mr. Hodgkinson will still be able to vote Democrat for many more elections.
- Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) “Republicans are getting what they want.”
- Another leftist laments that a more organized assault would have yielded a better result: “For violent resistance to work it’d need to be organized. Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive/ineffective.”
This post will be updated as the story develops.
As might as well cover this story today. Since the shooter is a member of ‘The Resistance,’ the press will forget about it by tomorrow afternoon.
Comments from local progressives :
“What? A republican shot by a GUN? Ponder the sweet, delicious, sad irony of that for a moment. Where is Wayne lapierre when you need him? And who needs gun control now? Let’s see if Scalise changes his tune.”
“On a side note, Scalise earned an A+ rating from the death merchants at the NRA. He deserves zero sympathy. He has contributed to way more misery than what he just endured.”
This is the progressivism that CCP, lil letter mike and Cas are so fond of.
The progressives were so outrageous with their hate speech this is what the online moderator had to do :
“Editor’s note: Comments have been disabled on this story because of personal attacks and hate speech.”
I am also sure the progressive owner of the local paper wanted to make sure no one posted comments that would indicate whether a progressive was responsible.
All future articles on this horrific act will not mention any political affiliation of the shooter. Which of course, will let everyone with a brain know the shooter was a progressive.
@2 yes it was the GUN that did it not the person that pulled the trigger.
…While, at the same time, calling for increasing restrictions to curb “gun violence”. Shannon Watts must be having multiple orgasms this morning.
CBS News is reporting that Rep Steve Scalise [R-LA] was transported to Washington MedStar Hospital and is in surgery at this time, after being shot in the hip.
A moronic progressive tweeted this happened because Virginia allows concealed carry of long guns.
Most likely the facility was a Gun Free Zone, one of the least safe places to be.
ONLY if the person is a Democrat, Dem Socialist, Green Party, etc. Even if they are, because it’s alleged to be a Caucasian male, he will be labeled a “white supremacist”, even if affiliated with one of the above political persuasions. [See Holmes, James]
The left has gone bonkers with their denunciation of Republicans. Listening to the major news networks, seeing the violence on college campuses against conservatives, this is the end result of their rage. Will the Democrats change? No, not until they eliminate their opposition by any means.
The perpetual loathing of conservatives by the left on college campuses and the major networks has not helped bring our country together. Will Democrats change their tune? No, as they believe they are the only true believers.
The 200-ish congressional obstructionists who filed suit against POTUS have dropped their lawsuit in a sign of “solidarity”. (To be refiled at at later time, of course.)
The progressive media seems to be leaving this fact out of their reporting :
“Several of the eyewitnesses, most of whom were Republican members of Congress, said that the gunman had asked whether the people on the field were Democrats or Republicans before opening fire with a rifle.”
Can’t have that sort of information out to the progressives.
Another 2%er for communism/national socialism shooting electing officials.
@13 “elected”, not electing
Congrats to Terry McAuliffe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to be the first elected official to pivot the incident towards the problem with “too many guns on the street” with “93 gun deaths every day” even “though that is not what this day is about”. Score!
Shooter identified. 66 yo, white Anti-Trumper Bernie Bro.
‘John Griffin of the Art Institute of Washington posted on Facebook on May 8″
The Art Institute of Washington, a diploma mill school any shithead could get into.
Rand Paul said had Scalise not been there, many people would have been killed. Scalise being leadership, he had Capitol Police Detail. Also congressman Brad Wenstup (R., OH) was a combat surgeon in Iraq, and he started treating Rep. Scalise on the field.
From a red state, no less, right? Oh, wait…from Belleville IL, exurban Chicago. Huh. Who woulda thunk it?
Now that the shooter has been identified as a progressive, this story will have a very short news cycle.
Perhaps Congress should pass a gun control bill that removes the gun rights of everyone who is enrolled as a Democrat or identifies as a Progressive. We would be much safer.
The shooter’s FB activities :
‘Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.’
Another Bernie loving Trump/Clinton hating unhinged progressive.
Particularly since POTUS just announced he has died from his injuries. We may never know what motivated him but at least we can be comforted by the fact that reducing ‘gun violence’ is the only answer to such tragedies.
Hahahahaha…take that, Black Lives Matter.
The Theory of “Duh.”
http://imgur.com/a/ZoWVu
I think I’m going to have recurring erections at the sole view of distraught leftists losing it every time president Trump pushes back on gun control as a matter of the #1 no-brainer principle that made America keep her 1A this far.
(…. thanks to, and only to the 2A)
You can’t fix leftist useful idiots.
Get that popcorn and enjoy the view of that circus of morons till (at least) 2020.
My bad. Belleville is downstate Illinois, south of Springfield and closer to St Louis than Chicago.
But, but, but…. Ted Nugent’s comments 5 years ago are morally equivalent! Why didn’t we condemn that? /sarc
Several of us have been warning (reminding) of the Left’s violence for quite a while now. Though you don’t have to be a freakishly accurate seer to have seen this coming. But the reality of the Democrat Media Complex’s new world of resistance & utter hatred of a legitimate election win, carried off by the Right with its anger of the Left’s attempts to destroy traditional American values & patriotism bringing us all to victory in an ATTEMPT to restore America to its rightful place.
This is only the beginning. Anyone on the Right from the Establishment GOP to Right leaning Libertarians to Center Right Republicans to the Conservative Right of Center; needs to be careful. We’re all the Silent Majority. Not putting a target on your forehead is important. It’s not just about losing friends or not getting a job offered by a Dem-run office that provides safe spaces to snowflakes.
The consequence of the Left’s insanity & psychotic behavior is that we on the Right must be careful how we express our love of country & pride of place. Discretion is best until the Left is put back into their place.
If he lives in Belleville IL,wtf was he doing at a baseball practice field in suburban Virginia?
How would he even of known politicians were going to be there?
#32 Poetry Man, The Leftist assassin had a previously failed business & all he had left was his hatred led by the Dem Media. Dangerously obsessive. Obviously a well-planned attack on us.
One thing for sure: The _Shakespeare in the Park_ advocates felt queasy for a moment, and had to think about how to spin all this.
President of Media Matters inciting violence on twitter :
“Don’t play footsie with proto-fascism. F*cking smash it.”
Twitter has let that tweet stand since Jan 2017.
#33 How many gun control laws did he break in the process of transporting his gun from IL to VA?
Lets hear from the local progressives how gun control laws stop criminals from doing bad things.
#32 This was a public event. It was part of the calendar of events for the politicians involved.
As to the gun control argument: Did this shooting happen, or did it not happen, in a so-called “Gun Free Zone”?
The local progressives are blaming this on the GOP repeal of the ACA. ummm, when did that happen?
Plus the guy was 66. He was not eligible for the ACA. Progressives are coming off as ignorant, violent, unhinged, hateful people.
The security detail stopped the shooter from doing more.
In other words: Pre-emptively having guns in the hands of the good people, on-site, helped a great deal.
We all know the Democratic Party was behind this. When Nancy Pelosi gives an order, their minions fire the gun.
So much can be said about this incident. One more thing…
It sure appears as if, in America today in 2017, LEFT-WINGERS. ARE. TERRORISTS.
Naturally, they won’t want to appear that way. What remains to be seen is whether they will now clean up their act for real, or just for the cameras?
Bernie Sanders does what he has to do – he denounces this horrific violence from one of his supporters: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/14/video-bernie-sanders-condemns-despicable-shooting-former-campaign-worker/
We should make sure that James T. Hodgkinson’s name becomes as well known as Timothy McVeigh.
Paul – I wouldn’t go so far as to say Pelosi ordered this. If nothing else, I think she’s getting too senile.
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/06/james-t-hodgkinson-russia/
Check out the unhinged progressive FB page the shooter was a member of :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1415090015389620/
“Terminate The Republican Party”
Hodgkinson loved Rachel Maddow: http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/shooter-declared-love-for-rachel-maddows-show-in-letters-to-editor/
TnnsNe1 (#35): Transporting the weapon. He may actually have been okay, depending on how he packed his vehicle. According to the McClure-Volkmer Act, if one can legally have the firearm at the start of the trip, and can at the end, if one drives through fairly directly and stops only for food and gasoline, then it is legally permissible. (Unfortunately, in practice it is a defense for use in a trial, not at the site of the traffic stop, in certain notorioius states.)
I am NOT a lawyer, but his intent in transporting the firearm may negate the protections of the McClure-Volkmer Act.
It was a despicable act, and a foreseeable result of all the hysterical attacks and other vitriol that have been thrown at Trump and republicans in general just for existing and not being of the “progressive” left. However, I don’t expect to the the hatred from the left get expressed more quietly.
Progressive Facebook removes the progressive shooter’s Facebook page. I guess FB and the other progressives don’t want people to see what they are up to.
The left still hasn’t figured out that the right to bear arms is to allow for self-defense against aggressive individuals, mobs, or governments — that is, those attacking first in an attempt to overcome and get their way by brute force.
The left still thinks guns are precisely to allow for any lunatic or authoritarian to get their way — never mind that’d be exactly the left’s most preferred playbook for whichever topic you can think of.
There’s a very specific word that disappeared long ago in the dictionaries in use by the left:
“Introspection”.
@46 … and has anyone ever witnessed a small kid trying to do some introspection in the middle of throwing a tantrum for next to no-reason, other than not getting his/her way?
There you go.
Q.E.D. yet again.
The MSM will either sweep the story under the rug, or they will put a spin on it to promote The Agenda.
The obvious, of course, is to blame the NRA and the availability of guns.
Also, they can claim that the shooter hated Hillary Clinton. That’s technically true, because he was a Bernie Sanders fan who considered Hillary too conservative (“GOP lite”).
Also, he had posted on social media that it was “Time to destroy Trump & Co.” So CNN and MSNBC can report that he had “referenced Donald Trump” in his tweets.
It’s an old theme with me: politicians (98% lefties) have been fanning the fires and dividing the people for a long time; they’re creating a monster they will not be able to control.
The political class is far removed from the populace; wackos attempting mass assassinations will only widen the gulf.
If the Capitol Police hadn’t been there – we’d have had a mass killing and be uncomfortably close to the cold civil war turning hot.
There are reports of democrats praying as the shooting unfolded.
“Please lord Mammon save our cuckservatives” https://gab.ai/BGKB/posts/8852811
7.A moronic progressive tweeted this happened because Virginia allows concealed carry of long guns.
Is that a mosin nagant in your pocket or are you happy to see me.
Speaking of political recuperation.. this just in, a Wikileaks exclusive:
A Damning Shot at the Russian Influence…
http://imgur.com/a/QneAt
… on Election Night.
“Since the shooter is a member of ‘The Resistance,’ the press will forget about it by tomorrow afternoon.”
The largest newspaper (and most progressive) in Maine has all but removed the story from their website.
The Gabby Gifford’s story ran for weeks.
And also today:
3 people killed, gunman dead in shooting at UPS building in SF
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Police-swarm-UPS-building-in-SF-on-report-of-11219519.php
Union official: Gunman in San Francisco UPS warehouse shooting had filed overtime grievance.
How about banning useless worker unions populated with thugs anyway?
So, the crazy had worked overtime and wouldn’t get paid — in what, 6 months? 6 weeks? 6 days? 6 hours?
Btw, I know someone close who found out their dental health insurance coverage supposedly “taken care of” by their union.. hadn’t been paid, hence the individual being denied dental care.
Socialism — it will work, next time!
@51, @ Steve, do you have a blog site?