Posted on 06/14/2017 9:42:20 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17
The gunman who opened fire on a Republican congressional baseball practice session this morning has been identified as a Trump-hating Bernie Sanders supporter. Sixty-six-year-old James T. Hodgkinson from Belleville, Illinois, was killed by Capitol Police after firing up to 100 rounds from an assault rifle at a baseball park in Alexandria, Virginia, leaving four injured including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
Hodgkinson was a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter and campaigned for the left-wing senator to get the Democratic nomination for president last year. The union tradesman, threatened to 'destroy' the president and his administration on social media.
He was shot by two U.S. Capitol Police officers who were accompanying Scalise to Eugene Simpson Stadium Park for the scheduled baseball practice ahead of Thursday night's charity match.
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“Maybe now that congressman are involved, they will get off their fat-happy arses and do something about those seditious and traitorous people who are inciting this violence.”
EXACTLY!!! And, this is NOT a “freedom of speech” issue at ALL!!!!!
Everyone knows this, but no one will say it: if we could keep guns out of the hands of Democrats there would be virtually no gun violence in the US.
detective posts some very good questions, especially how did this shooter know where to be at the right time, when the practice time was sent privately. I do hope we get some answers.
CGato
And the FBI guy at the press conference a few minutes ago said (I think I understood it right) that it was just by chance that he was there this morning. Riiight. Comey’s FBI.
The question now is “at what point was he radicalized”. Did he have to back to DC for training? or was MSNBC Madrasa enough for the guy?
We have a good new term for what we are seeing now.
__Radicalized Resistance__
We have all been seeing it for months, now there is a clear prototype of Radicalized Resistance terrorism.
And all that Russia talk gives them cover. It’s hard not to miss how richly they love playing people on “Russia” and pretending how they were the Cold War warriors against the Soviet Union. Wrapping themselves in the flag.
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