Assassination attempt on Steve Scalise

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Assassination attempt on Steve Scalise

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"As we were standing here this morning, a gunman walked up to the fence line and just began to shoot. I was standing at home plate and he was in the third base line,” Bishop said. “He had a rifle that was clearly meant for the job of taking people out, multiple casualties, and he had several rounds and magazines that he kept unloading and reloading.”


The shooting went on for roughly 10 minutes, with some accounts putting the number of shots fired around 100. Four people were injured, including two Capitol Hill police officers and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, of Louisiana. The suspect was also shot.

“The only reason why any of us walked out of this thing, by the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover. We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” said Bishop. “He was coming around the fence line and he was looking for all of us who had found cover in different spots. But if we didn’t have return fire right there, he would have come up to each one of us and shot us point-blank.”
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Re: Assassination attempt on Steve Scalise

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Doesn't sound like an assassination attempt on any one guy. Sounds like an attempted massacre like what that guy Breivik did at the summer camp.

From what little I've read, it would have been just that except some of the good guys were very *very* good.
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This is serious and all, but....

10 minutes, 100 rounds and only four *injured*? :lol: I think that might be the worst record yet for this kind of thing.
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Gunman identified as a dude from IL. His license picture on the Fox News article above matches an old profile pic from his facebook page (confirmation that it's the right account)... and he's a raging Bernie supporter. Color me shocked.
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JKosprey wrote:This is serious and all, but....

10 minutes, 100 rounds and only four *injured*? :lol: I think that might be the worst record yet for this kind of thing.
That was my first thought, too.

A lady in my office went to the shooter's facebook page. Bernie supporter. "Trump is a traitor!" (a bit of cross posting here)

It's a good thing most active shooter situations involve deranged left wing types. They mostly don't seem to be able to shoot.
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Facebook pulled his profile page.
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JKosprey wrote:This is serious and all, but....

10 minutes, 100 rounds and only four *injured*? :lol: I think that might be the worst record yet for this kind of thing.
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I hate to say this, and I really hope that I'm wrong, but it looks like the Left is going to keep pushing until they get what they want. Don't think they understand what all that entails. It's not going to be pretty.

Let's hope they figure out that this is NOT a can of worms that they really want to open.
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They won't. They are doubling down.


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Gingrich: Shooting 'part of a pattern' on the left - CNN
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