Posted on 10/03/2017 4:12:36 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams said Monday that the motivations behind the June shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice are still unknown, and will never be known, despite widespread agreement that the targeting of the attack was political.
Williams was discussing Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas, and how the gunman's motivation for the attack may never be completely known. Williams then tried to tie the Las Vegas shooting investigation to the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.).
"It would not be unheard of if at the end of all this it remains a puzzle," Williams said. "For example, just the recent shooting at the congressional baseball game here outside Washington, D.C. that wounded Steve Scalise and you know, was a devastating attack on that institution; the authorities can never say for sure what drove the gunman in that case."
"His life was falling apart, he was experiencing financial problems, he was depressed. He came here, he said, hoping to talk to federal authorities in Washington about taxes, but why he targeted Republicans, what specifically he had in mind here, they have never answered that question," Williams said.
James T. Hodgkinson, who shot and wounded two U.S. Capitol Police officers in addition to Scalise, had been a vocal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) supporter. He had previously ranted on social media against President Donald Trump and Republicans, including Scalise specifically.
“’It’s time to destroy Trump & Co.’: Scalise shooter raged on Facebook”
“Here’s a Republican [Scalise] that should lose his job, but they gave him a raise,” James T. Hodgkinson
March 22 Facebook post, ..”Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy,’’ he said. “It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”
All shootings are done by:
1) muslims (which are democrats)
2) democrats
Fascinating.
If we outlaw the two groups, shootings will stop!
Notice the wording. “can never be known”. Truth can never be known in this foul world.
Denial ain’t just a river.
Orwellian.
I guess him asking other people in the park if that was Republicans or Democrats wasn’t a tip off huh Pete?
What a super-sleuth...
Hey Gay Democrat Girlie- Man......the shooter was a LEFTIST BERNIE BRO, you idiot!
Well, just now watching Scalise with martha macalum on faux and she tried her best to get him to say anything negative about the 2nd amendment. He absolutely stood strong and says his shooting did NOT change his stance on the 2nd amendment. BOOM! Thank you Steve and best wishes on your continued PT to recover from your gun shot. And his buddies pulled the “silencer” bill. Friggin’ cowards. That had ZERO to do with Las Vegas. I contacted both senators, my CONgress critter and DJT this morning to let them know, HANDS OFF the 2nd. Do it.
But Thomas Friedman wondered today if the Las Vegas shooter had instead been a Muslim and others have said that country music fans killed in the tragedy there are not worthy of sympathy because they most likely voted for Trump. When it comes to things like this, all that I learned about Media Party double standards I learned in Bernard Goldberg’s book “Bias” in the chapter titled “Connecting the Dots to Terrorism”.
Yes, Pete, we bow down to you. You are the source of all truth. Hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm.
“Denial ain’t just a river.”
And debasement is right down the stairs.
What? Is he insane?
Hmmmm. He asked if those practicing were Republicans before he started shooting. Yeah, I have no idea why he started shooting either.........
Liberals become deliberately stupid when discussing violent attacks by their own kind on conservatives.
Just a guess here, but I’m thinking that the left’s non-stop tantrum since the election robbed them of a socialist dictatorship was a big contributing factor.
Look at what leftists say on social media these days. Before the election, some were looking forward to when Hillary would start marching conservatives into camps. There are leftists now saying that they want all Republicans dead. They spend a lot of time dehumanizing anyone who is not a socialist, because it is a lot easier to commit a genocide when no one has sympathy for the victims.
How the left gets away with claiming that they are caring and compassionate humanitarians is beyond me. At some point, a true caring and compassionate person has got to realize that hoping for millions of people to be murdered is not in line with the essence of caring or compassion.
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