No sooner did news break that a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) were left-wing Twitter users celebrating the attack in which two Capitol Police were also shot, as well as a congressional staffer, and possibly more. Activist and media personality, Tariq Nasheed, appeared to indicate support for the shooting on Twitter:
Author Malcom Harris, "joked"(?) that the shooter may have simply been acting in self-defense:
If the American people would wake up, they would learn our current loud mouth political left isn’t the second coming of Jesus after all. In fact it’s something more like the devil.