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Shooting At GOP Baseball Practice Latest In Pattern Of Violence Against Republicans
Daily Caller ^
| 11:56 AM 06/14/2017
| PETER HASSON Associate Editor
Posted on 06/15/2017 11:15:40 AM PDT by 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.
Hodgkinsons 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, Its Time to Destroy Trump & Co.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hodgkinson; libealism; progressivism; radicalleft; republicans; trends
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Has anyone heard diddly squat from 0bama or either of the Klintoons? Silence is consent.
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:15:40 AM PDT
by
TBP
To: TBP
The NYT drew the map for the shooter.
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:16:48 AM PDT
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:18:18 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
To: TBP
The shooting at a congressional GOP baseball practice is just the latest in an escalating pattern of violence and intimidation against Republicans.
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.
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:20:09 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: TBP
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.
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:21:15 AM PDT
by
Principled
(OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
To: Travis McGee
I wonder if his family is receiving a payout from Clinton Foundation or 0bama himself ala palestinian authority or ISIS or al queda
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:23:25 AM PDT
by
Principled
(OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
To: TBP
The FBI is working on charging the shooter with obstruction of justice!
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:23:45 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: TBP
Did Obama accuse the Capitol Police of acting “stupidly” yet?
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posted on
06/15/2017 11:52:46 AM PDT
by
paulcissa
(Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
To: TBP
Who is organizing these violent groups?
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posted on
06/15/2017 2:43:42 PM PDT
by
SaraJohnson
( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
To: TBP
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.
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posted on
06/15/2017 5:14:46 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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