BREAKING: Gunman opens fire on GOP congressional baseball team practice session

[Noob]

You can expect a new push for gun control after this...

 

[jeffro97]

So far I know of Scalise, Paul, and DeSantis who were there. Do we have any confirmation of others who were present at the practice?

Here's a team roster: https://www.congressionalbaseball.org/teams/

 

[phill4paul]

So far I know of Scalise, Paul, and DeSantis who were there. Do we have any confirmation of others who were present at the practice?

Here's a team roster: https://www.congressionalbaseball.org/teams/

Right now, Scalise is the only congressman known to be wounded.

Here are the lawmakers who were at the practice, according to the latest NBC News reporting:

Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana)

Gary Palmer (R-Alabama)

Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio)

Jeff Flake (R-Arizona)

Rand Paul (R-Kentucky)

Mo Brooks (R-Alabama)

Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tennessee)

Roger Williams (R-Texas)

Mark Walker (R-North Carolina)

Mike Conaway (R-Texas)

Joe Barton (R-Texas)

Mike Bishop (R-Michigan)

Rodney Davis (R-Illinois)

John Moolenar (R-Michigan)

Ron DeSantis (R-Florida, left before it happened, but saw from afar)

Jeff Duncan (R-South Carolina, left before it happened)

Bill Johnson (R-Ohio, was at practice but left early)

This list will be updated

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...lise-was-shot-n772191?cid=public-rss_20170614

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Drudge is reporting some incredible tweets from "leftwingers":

 

[jllundqu]

The left is already in firm "Guns did this, ban guns!" Mode....

The right is already in firm "leftist assassin" mode....

I'm going to have breakfast and watch the world burn.

 

[nikcers]

This still doesn't change my mind this isn't enough to make me not hate cops who blindly follow orders and are cowards who don't go after bad cops out of fear of others turning against them. I am glad though that Rand Paul is alive and fighting for my liberty.

 

[JK/SEA]

SNL skits should be a hoot this week.

showing repub members getting blown away will be a real laugh riot for peeps like Griffin and Colbert...

 

[angelatc]

Rand was there...



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...p-steve-scalise-aides-shot-baseball-practice/

I am glad Rand is safe but I am almost in tears thinking that Ron could have been there. I still love that man, I guess.

 

[nikcers]

SNL skits should be a hoot this week.

showing repub members getting blown away will be a real laugh riot for peeps like Griffin and Colbert...

Everyone's trying to politicize this into a big story, it would be nice to hear the real motive. One could even argue with the stuff Rand Paul has been saying lately this could of been a warning shot. I hope he doesn't back down after all of this, he is fighting the good fight and is on the right side of history on things.

 

[UWDude]

Who is going to play short stop now?

 

[phill4paul]

10:41 AM
June 14 by Matt Zapotosky and Ellen Nakashima

Shooter identified by law enforcement officials as James T. Hodgkinson
The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials. Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home inspection business, but his home inspection license expired in November 2016 and was not renewed, state records show.

Hodgkinson was charged in April 2006 with battery and aiding damage to a motor vehicle, according to online records in St. Clair County, Ill. The charges were dismissed, records show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...as-james-t-hodgkinson/?utm_term=.6c52c05ed74e

Acquaintance describes campaigning for Bernie Sanders with shooting suspect

Charles Orear, 50, a restaurant manager from St. Louis, said in an interview Wednesday that he became friendly with James T. Hodgkinson, whom law enforcement officials identified as the shooter, during their work in Iowa on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Orear said Hodgkinson was a passionate progressive and showed no signs of violence or malice toward others.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Orear said when told by phone. “I met him on the Bernie trail in Iowa, worked with him in the Quad Cities area.”

Orear described Hodgkinson as a “quiet guy” who was “very mellow, very reserved” when they stayed overnight at a Sanders’s supporter home in Rock Island, Ill., after canvassing for the senator.

“He was this union tradesman, pretty stocky, and we stayed up talking politics,” he said. “He was more on the really progressive side of things.”

The Post reached out to Orear after seeing that he liked one of Hodkinson’s Facebook posts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...nders-with-hodgkinson/?utm_term=.2d01e67996f4

 

[jllundqu]

This place is turning in to the 1960s pretty quick

 

[angelatc]

Everyone's trying to politicize this into a big story, it would be nice to hear the real motive. One could even argue with the stuff Rand Paul has been saying lately this could of been a warning shot. I hope he doesn't back down after all of this, he is fighting the good fight and is on the right side of history on things.

A witness said that someone walked up to him and asked if they were Republicans or Democrats.

 

[Lamp]

This place is turning in to the 1960s pretty quick

Its like the Quiet Revolution all over again

 

[Dr.3D]

Looks like the gunman will have to tried posthumously.

 

[Valli6]

Trump speaking now. Says shooter has died.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

His twiiter:

https://twitter.com/JTHInspections/with_replies

[h=2]1. Hodgkinson Wrote on Facebook, ‘Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.’[/h]

(Facebook)

 

[William Tell]

His twiiter:

https://twitter.com/JTHInspections/with_replies

can anyone read what the button on his shirt says?

 

[jllundqu]

His twitter handle: @JTHInspections

 

[Lamp]

I meant FLQ