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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:58PM
Aside from the differences when the shooters are "right" leaning (usually,) where are the people like myself who are pleased to see some lawyers get shot at?
We say all this stuff about lawyers... even jokes and lines about how 90% of lawyers make them look bad. So when shooting at a bunch of them... it shouldn't be as big of a deal. None of them are innocent. On top of all that, these are the worst kind of lawyers and most have their job due to deep corruption.
The extremes the propaganda has allowed the corruption to continue is going to not only motivate suckers to go too far and some nuts to get elected (who were just support to donate more money) but it ALSO is going to motivate people who see past the farce and can no longer take what is going on. This sort of stuff will increase to the point where sane fanatics start getting involved too (not sure this guy is one... but given people are getting worn out at how bad things have degraded beyond what the world thought was possible, one has to expect some stressed out sane people to take action...)
I'm waiting for the sick people who are being killed due to policy changes to do something instead of just die because their leaders said "let them eat cake." The French revolution wasn't all about crazy people and it began with small numbers of "traitors" etc. The American revolution had fewer motives and it still happened.