Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field

[John V]

The republicunts' worst nighmare.... a Sanders' supporter with a gun.

Actually Sanders supporters with knives have been more dangerous so far.

[Jesster]

Another political fight. You're doing exactly what politicians want you to do. Try just feeling some empathy for the victims for once. This is fucking terrible.

[Foxaèr]

Today, Senator Rand Paul (R-TX) was a fortunate bystander at the scene of a shooting, in the batting cage when a deranged gunman fired more than 50 rounds and wounded five people. Senator Paul released a statement praising the “bravery of the Capitol Police,” who heroically shot the assailant despite being wounded themselves.

During the administration of President Barack Obama, however, Paul sang a very different tune, trumpeting one of the right’s favorite pieces of bogus Constitutional propaganda: that the Second Amendment was put in place so that citizens could overthrow the government.

Senator Rand Paul ✔ @RandPaul
.@Judgenap: Why do we have a Second Amendment? It's not to shoot deer. It's to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical!

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/06/14/he...president/

[Brian37]

The republicunts' worst nighmare.... a Sanders' supporter with a gun.

Actually Sanders supporters with knives have been more dangerous so far.

Bullshit, that is selection bias and sample rate error. We are not talking about one or two events. It is still far easier to commit murder with a gun than a knife. 

You want this to be about politics so you can falsely paint liberals as the bad guys. This is about ONE INDUSTRY AND ONE LOBBY. But if you want to make it about politics, only one party is supporting an industry that is producing on average 36,000 gun deaths per year. 

I don't think Bernie Sanders is responsible for 36,000 gun deaths.

[vorlon13]

chaotic, and confusingly shot, but video of shooting on FNC now

[Aegon]

That's the basis of Republican ideology.

Don't be naive, the dems are doing it to.

I'm saying that conservatism operates around the idea that of it doesn't impact you personally then who cares? And the only reason that there are working class conservatives is because the elites have been able to convince them that their policies won't affect them, or will even benefit them.

See: healthcare

[Neo-Scholastic]

This is about ONE INDUSTRY AND ONE LOBBY. But if you want to make it about politics, only one party is supporting an industry that is producing on average 36,000 gun deaths per year. 

LOOK! A bird...

[vorlon13]

I think this 'demonstration' is going to give some potentially former gun control advocates something to think about.

Is a future 5-4 SCOTUS ruling (Kennedy, Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Breyer - Thomas, Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito) upholding the absolute rights of SJWs to bear arms that unthinkable now ?

[henryp]

I remember when Justice Scalia died, and I saw a lot of celebratory 'tweets' from people I wouldn't consider extreme, and that was sort of the writing on the wall, in my mind.

If you believe someone's death is something to be celebrated, "someone should murder them" is a conclusion you can reach pretty easily..

And the second event of note, in my mind, was the Alt-Right guy getting sucker punched on camera. And again, the reaction was celebratory. Which to me says "Violence against people you disagree with is good."

I expect we're going to see more of this stuff in the near future. During the primaries, I remember all the explanations how Trump is "Just like" Hitler. Or sometimes worse than Hitler. Well, if Trump were worse than Hitler, and elected president...what should be the response to that. If Republicans are just like Nazi's. If Democrats are going to strip you of all your freedom and get you killed. These are caricatures of things people have gone to war over.

It's good for turning out the vote and selling newspapers/ad time, so it'll never go away. But I think political violence like this is just getting started.

[A Theist]

Certain irony in gun-loving republicunts being shot down....

There's a certain irony in the left being the self proclaimed champions of compassion and tolerance only to have one of their own shoot down someone they disagreed with politically. The gunman was shot dead by the police. No doubt, this will end up in your, "Fucking Cops", thread because they shot and killed the leftist fucker who was doing the shooting?

There's also a certain irony in the left being the self proclaimed champions of free speech only to have a vicious mob from their ranks riot, commit assault, and destroy public and private property whenever a University invites a conservative to speak on their campus.