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Scalise, Aides Shot On Baseball Field This Morning
The Hayride ^ | 14 June 17 | Macoidh

Posted on 06/14/2017 6:54:13 AM PDT by LSUfan

There were some 15-20 members of Congress at the practice. Scalise was playing second base for the Republican team and was taking infield when the shooting began. The shooter was reportedly firing from the fence line of the baseball park in Alexandria, near the third base line, lending the potential that Scalise may have been specifically targeted. Rep. Trent Kelly, who was playing third base, and Rep. Gary Palmer, who was at shortstop, were closer to the shooter than Scalise was.

A Scalise aide and a Capitol Police officer were reportedly also hit, the Scalise aide in the chest and the policewoman in the lower leg. Rep. Roger Williams was also injured as he slid into a dugout attempting to avoid the gunfire. Williams reportedly broke his ankle. One of Williams’ staff members was reportedly also shot.

As a member of House leadership, Scalise carries a security detail of two Capitol police officers. Alexandria police were reportedly on the scene within three minutes

Witnesses say some 50 shots were fired, as the shooter had what Sen. Rand Paul, who was also on the scene, called an AR-15 style weapon. Rep. Brad Wenstrop, who had served as an Army medic in Iraq and was the first to tend to Scalise when the shooting died down, said it was a 10-minute barrage of shots including the shooter reloading several times, and ultimately also used a pistol.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: braking; insurrection; liberalviolence; progressiveviolence; scalise; searchworks; shooting; terrorism
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1 posted on 06/14/2017 6:54:13 AM PDT by LSUfan
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To: LSUfan

Is Kathy Griffin safe? What if someone tries to pick her off with a rifle?

What about the actors of the Trump assassination play? Aren’t they sitting ducks for a long range rifle shot?

And Atifa thugs... do they have body armor that would stop a deer rifle from 400 yards?

Could get bad


2 posted on 06/14/2017 6:58:07 AM PDT by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: LSUfan
Stupid Fox Business Network. I wish I knew how to take screen shots.

At the bottom of the scree it reads:

Rep. Scalise Shot In Hip; Stocks Hit All-Time High

Idiots.

3 posted on 06/14/2017 6:58:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: LSUfan
Is 🤡NN=ISIS celebrating yet? Have they passed candy and danced in the streets yet?! I loathe those F'ers!! Hate them!!
4 posted on 06/14/2017 7:00:28 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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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.”

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/06/14/michigan-representative-ok-as-shots-fired-at-members-of-congress/


5 posted on 06/14/2017 7:03:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are Millwall and on Flight 93 for our country! Lets Roll! For Americans and President Trump!)
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To: LSUfan

SeeBS saying shooter targeting Republicans, suggesting it was the game, not a practice?
Maybe someone should let them know the shooter asked if it was the GOP team.


6 posted on 06/14/2017 7:03:55 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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Other threads if anyone cares to scan the comments thereon.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3560724/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3560726/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3560729/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3560735/posts
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7 posted on 06/14/2017 7:04:17 AM PDT by deport
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Guns fault.


8 posted on 06/14/2017 7:04:23 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: LSUfan

BBC is telling about 1% of what happened


9 posted on 06/14/2017 7:06:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

BBC is telling about 1% of what happened

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1. Scalise shot in leg or hip at second base and drug himself further away from shooter
2. Female capitol cop shot seriously and airlifted out
3. Male capitol cop shot but not life threatening
4. Congressional staffer shot in leg
5. Shooter shot by capitol police


10 posted on 06/14/2017 7:08:47 AM PDT by deport
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To: LSUfan
There were some 15-20 members of Congress at the practice. Scalise was playing second base for the Republican team and was taking infield when the shooting began. The shooter was reportedly firing from the fence line of the baseball park in Alexandria, near the third base line, lending the potential that Scalise may have been specifically targeted. Rep. Trent Kelly, who was playing third base, and Rep. Gary Palmer, who was at shortstop, were closer to the shooter than Scalise was.

A Scalise aide and a Capitol Police officer were reportedly also hit, the Scalise aide in the chest and the policewoman in the lower leg. Rep. Roger Williams was also injured as he slid into a dugout attempting to avoid the gunfire. Williams reportedly broke his ankle. One of Williams’ staff members was reportedly also shot. As a member of House leadership, Scalise carries a security detail of two Capitol police officers. Alexandria police were reportedly on the scene within three minutes

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Reportedly, I am lending the potential that this was written very fast without editing for grammar and content.

11 posted on 06/14/2017 7:13:29 AM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: LSUfan; Chode

Trump has everyone scared $hitless to even say the truth (because they havent done that in so long they have forgotten how!) no one will talk to the press and they are too afraid just to make it up any more, so you get a nothing story about SOMETHING !!


12 posted on 06/14/2017 7:14:11 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: longfellow

Medias Fault!


13 posted on 06/14/2017 7:15:09 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: LSUfan

Look for the Democrat propaganda machine to kick into high gear today, and try to spin this as a “Gun Safety” issue (that’s the more benign term they are using these days in place of “Gun Control” - same agenda, new name.) Also, look for the name Gabby Giffords to be repeatedly invoked in an effort to divert attention away from the fact that the shooter was deliberately targeting Republicans.


14 posted on 06/14/2017 7:15:19 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Drawsing

And very little imagination used as well. hell, they didnt even make up any BS facts to explain ANYTHING so we have a YUGE Nothing story on a very huge news worthy event.

Trump own the media. Every single brain cell !!


15 posted on 06/14/2017 7:16:48 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: LSUfan

Almost exclusively, assassins, and serial killers, are either Democrats, socialists or anarchists or communists, or are severely mentally ill. Though there is considerable overlap.

At least this time, only a limited number of the MSM will assume they are Tea Party or conservatives.


16 posted on 06/14/2017 7:17:17 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Baizuo" A derogatory term the Chinese are using to describe America's naive "White Left")
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To: LSUfan

in this environment of uncertainty I submit that the one thing that we can count on is Law Enforcement. Almost consistently we have reports of our Police Officers successfully bringing these incidents to a satisfactory conclusion. For this I am eternally grateful.


17 posted on 06/14/2017 7:20:44 AM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: GreenHornet

The Second Amendment party got what it deserved...
Wait for it.

Fundraising by anti Second Amendment democrats will kick into high gear by noon

Never let a crisis go to waste
Theres always money to be made for The Cause


18 posted on 06/14/2017 7:22:01 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: LSUfan

So .... the shooting part of CW2 has begun. Who would not have seen this coming?


19 posted on 06/14/2017 7:24:24 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: longfellow

SeeBs also put up an AR with the label “assault rifle”.
An assault rifle is capable of fully automatic fire. Chances are about 100% this was a semi-auto modern sporting rifle.

An “immigrant” is someone in this country legally. The MSM lies every day. Trump won. The social contract is being breached.
Responsibility for this shooting can be laid at the MSM’s door step due to the MSM deluding and whipping mental defectives into a state of hysteria.


20 posted on 06/14/2017 7:38:07 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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