Steve Scalise Shot

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

Looks like the shooter was a lefty wingnut. A March 22 post on Facebook:

Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

See Finn? The issue isn't guns. The issue is liberals with guns.

It could not possibly be mentally unstable people with guns now could it, all courtesy of the GOP/NRA

[Rajoo]

And now the shooter is dead. Too bad. Now the GOP-NRA coalition will make up conspiracy stories and fear mongering will persist while gun manufacturers will have a field day.

Lawmaker Steve Scalise injured in GOP baseball shooting; suspect James T. Hodgkinson dies after shootout

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...81c_story.html

[Pio1980]

Gunman Allegedly Asked, 'Are These Republicans or Democrats?' http://nbcnews.to/2s0Zjf1

[Pio1980]

A politically powerful minority has been induced to forcefully insist that any sensible meaningful policy to limit supply, access, or features of firearms, to include military combat purpose (high capacity/ rapid fire, f.i.) are infringements of constitutional right. Consequently, ready access by legal means, or otherwise, is available to literally anyone sufficiently motivated. The Anders Brevik case example demonstrates that achieving a 100% result by common sense management is unlikely under the best of circumstances, but definitely improves general safety and security without ovebearing infringement of actual liberty in a modern representative environment.
Otherwise;
This shooting appears a "lone wolf" attack by someone with a grudge or a cause. Whether part of a "cybermovement" of some sort remains to be seen.

[CarlV]

Trump is coming for your guns!

[Pio1980]

Anger management issues?
Gunman Had 'Apparently Volunteered' for Bernie Sanders http://nbcnews.to/2s0Zjf1

[Pio1980]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...d4fbe4a66f?wyj

[whell]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...d4fbe4a66f?wyj

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/33...16-to-go-after

[Rajoo]

Ted Cruz:

“The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty,” Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line “2nd Amendment against tyranny.”

Hard to assign fault if someone were to take this literally. Wasn't Trump himself calling for a Second Amendment solution thus promoting this idea?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ted-...rnment-tyranny

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Ted Cruz:


Hard to assign fault if someone were to take this literally. Wasn't Trump himself calling for a Second Amendment solution thus promoting this idea?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ted-...rnment-tyranny

This is rebellion, the 2nd was afaik never intended to support or justify rebellion against the US government.
It didn't work for the Southern states.