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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-baseball-jokes dept.

A gunman opened fire at U.S. Congressmen and others who were gathered at a practice this morning for the Congressional Baseball Game. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and at least four others were reportedly injured. The gunman, who has been identified by unnamed sources as James T. Hodgkinson III, was taken to a local hospital where he died from his injuries:

A gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire Wednesday at a park in Alexandria, Va., as Republican members of Congress held a morning baseball practice, wounding at least five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (La.).

The suspected gunman is James T. Hodgkinson III, 66, from Illinois, according to multiple law enforcement sources. President Trump announced that the gunman, who was wounded in a shootout with officers, has died at an area hospital.

The wounded also included two Capitol Police officers and a congressional aide, according to one law enforcement official and witness accounts.

Congressman Scalise was shot in the hip and is in stable condition.

Hodgkinson's motive may have already been identified by the media:

A Facebook page belonging to a person with the same name includes pictures of Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and rhetoric against President Trump, including a post that reads: "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."

Charles Orear, 50, a restaurant manager from St. Louis, said in an interview Wednesday that he became friendly with Hodgkinson during their work together in Iowa on Sanders's campaign. Orear said Hodgkinson was a passionate progressive and showed no signs of violence or malice toward others.

Also at LA Times, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Hill, and CNN.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 14 2017, @09:09PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @09:09PM (#525666)

    > handing me food, clothing, and helping me with shelter

    Are you referring to poor people in civilized societies, who only massively converted during invasion (or King strategic decisions), but otherwise starved while already praying the local god?
    Are you referring to a convenient myth that colonizers were actually helping locals with food, clothes and shelter?

    Because, "Hey, it's this way to pray unless you want it to be your last prayer" vastly outnumbers both of the above.

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  • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:39PM (2 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:39PM (#525730) Journal

    That seems numerically unlikely, given population totals, time, and the breadth of missionary coverage.

    I don't suppose you have a citation?

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    "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:29AM (#525772)

      http://i.imgur.com/rzv85dn.png [imgur.com]

      Which ones of these regions was never conquered by force by someone bringing their one true religion in their luggage?
      Maybe the US/Canada/Australia, because the locals ended up mostly dead anyway, and that's only if we don't count the people brought against their will, then encouraged to worship right...

      • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:36AM

        by KGIII (5261) on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:36AM (#525777) Journal

        I see you missed my point. Numerically, they are happily converting people even today. It's not like they stopped converting people in the 1800s. They are still bribing hungry souls for Jesus, and on a very large scale. Hell, you probably have a religious soup kitchen, right there in your town.

        --
        "So long and thanks for all the fish."