GOP Congressman shot at baseball practice, Gunman likely dead

ok doser

ok doser

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always remember:

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drbrumley

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As the winds of sanctimony blow over Capitol Hill, will the NeverTrumpers take reponsbility for the consequences of their hateful rhetoric?



Of course not!
 
drbrumley

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It Was All Trump’s Fault
Thomas DiLorenzo

That’s the line we will soon be hearing from various segments of Totalitarian America, a.k.a. the Democrat Party/Hollywood/Media machine regarding the shooting of a Republican congressman this morning. (News reports are that the shooter asked beforehand if the people practicing for the annual congressional baseball game were Republicans or Democrats). * It’s their version of “The Devil Made Him Do It.” *Then they will go about their normal business of instigating even more violence against those who disagree with them with more stunts like plays portraying the murder of the president, rioting, etc.
 
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best summary of the motive of the shooter.

http://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/06/14/congressional-shooters-facebook-pages-say-society/
Today, Shaun King is saying it’s ridiculous to link Bernie to this attempted massacre.

I agree with him. But, it’s more complicated than that.

People are asking others to not “politicize” the shooting, but that’s just not possible. Hodgkinson went out looking for Republicans to kill. He wanted to kill them because of their politics. This is a political attack – and this is a man who was influenced by the incessant drumbeat of rhetoric which dehumanizes political enemies.

When a comic posts a photo where she’s holding the (fake) severed head of the president, when a Shakespeare play is modified to show the assassination of the president, when it is okay to mock the 11-year-old son of the president because of the T-shirt he wore, and all of these things are done without a second thought, without considering that these people are human beings who have thoughts, dreams, needs and desires just like you and I have, we have arrived at a point in our civilization where we really need to take a long, hard look at what we’re doing.

I can’t know for sure, but I would suspect that when James Hodgkinson stepped on that baseball field today he didn’t see Steve Scalise, Jeff Flake, and the rest of the GOP baseball team as people. (For God’s sake, there was a child there, and that didn’t stop him.) I suspect he saw them as evil, dishonest, greedy impediments to progress who needed to be eliminated for the greater good.

Bernie Sanders is not to blame for Hodgkinson’s acts. Neither is Kathy Griffin or any number of trolls who say crappy things or wish a horrible death on President Trump, Melania Trump, Barron Trump, or Republicans in general. This is squarely on Hodgkinson.

But, the environment of “other-ing” and dehumanization of anyone who disagrees with our politics definitely played a part, which is an attitude evident in the memes and postings on Hodgkinson’s Facebook pages over the last two years – and evident on the Facebook and Twitter timelines of many people.

“I don’t care what happens to that person. I hope they suffer and die a slow, painful death. They’re getting what they deserve for voting for [fill in the blank].”

That’s what James Hodgkinson’s Facebook page says about all of us.
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drbrumley

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Thank God that Virginia Baseball Stadium Was Not a Gun-Free Zone . . .
Thomas DiLorenzo

. . . where even the security guards are unarmed, like all those schools where mass shootings have occurred. *If so, all 40 or so members of Congress and staffers would have been killed.
 
Nick M

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Thank God LEO shot him dead. So he is in hell right now facing the wrath of God for giving the Lord Jesus Christ the middle finger his whole life.
 
musterion

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How did an everyday schlub from Illinois even know that this practice was being held, when and where?
 
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