Shooting At GOP Baseball Practice Latest In Pattern Of Violence Against Republicans

Daily Caller ^ | 11:56 AM 06/14/2017 | PETER HASSON Associate Editor

[TBP]

The shooting at a congressional GOP baseball practice is just the latest in an escalating pattern of violence and intimidation against Republicans.

James T. Hodgkinson opened fire on GOP lawmakers and staffers with a rifle on Wednesday morning as they prepared for the annual summer baseball game between Republicans and Democrats. The shooter wounded several victims, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and a staffer for Texas Rep. Roger Williams, before heroically being taken down by Capitol Police.

If not for the attendance of Scalise — whose leadership position comes with a security detail — “it would have been a massacre,” said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who managed to avoid getting shot. “I felt like I was back in Iraq but without my weapon,” said Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a former combat surgeon.

Hodgkinson’s social media profile revealed the 66-year-old was a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter who believed President Trump is a “traitor.” In one foreboding Facebook post in March, Hodgkinson wrote, “It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”

[TBP]

Such lovely people!

Has anyone heard diddly squat from 0bama or either of the Klintoons? Silence is consent.

[Travis McGee]

The NYT drew the map for the shooter.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Mr. Douglas]

The shooting at a congressional GOP baseball practice is just the latest in an escalating pattern of violence and intimidation against Republicans.

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Yep. And here is the “good” pattern I’m seeing in this: Perp gets shot by good guys with guns.

more and more R’s are carrying and learning how to shoot. And this kind of outcome, regarding the fate of the liberal, will become even more common.

[Principled]

And leading up to this, remember Trump supporters being beaten and attacked... and police doing nothing but watching?

Of course they’re going to keep ratcheting up the violence. They’ll do so until there is a consequence.

It’s going to be an unhappy place when there is no expectation that laws will be followed.

[Principled]

I wonder if his family is receiving a payout from Clinton Foundation or 0bama himself ala palestinian authority or ISIS or al queda

[Dr. Ursus]

The FBI is working on charging the shooter with obstruction of justice!

[paulcissa]

Did Obama accuse the Capitol Police of acting “stupidly” yet?

[SaraJohnson]

Who is organizing these violent groups?

[Hugin]

I want to puke when I see Pelosi, Ryan, Sanders and the rest suddenly saying "political violence has no place in America", when it's directed at one of the political class. If some average Trump supporter had been shot for wearing a MAGA cap you wouldn't hear a peep.