House Whip Scalise, security detail shot at baseball practice; suspect in custody

[SavedOnebyGrace]

1 minute ago, Running Gator said:

So, you think that was an obvious lie and not just a case of misspeaking?  

How many times does he need to repeat it for it to be just a case of misspeaking?

Just now, other one said:

Makes one wonder where he got that thought from.

To use a tragedy like this for political favor among all the gun control advocates in the Democratic Party is highly suspect and despicable.

[Running Gator]

6 minutes ago, other one said:

Makes one wonder where he got that thought from.

Not really, if you take the amount of gun deaths last year and divide it by 365 it comes out to 92.2 or so.  I guess he rounded up to 93 a day

[missmuffet]

Just now, Running Gator said:

Not really, if you take the amount of death last year and divide it by 365 it comes out to 92.2 or so.  I guess he rounded up to 93 a day

Really? Interesting

[SavedOnebyGrace]

4 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

The shooter was consumed with anger and rage add a gun to that and you have a disaster.  There are not many who do not support Trump that will take a gun and shoot a bunch of people down. Very sad.

It only takes one.  And Democrats keep stirring up their base.  Bernie supporters hear the same rhetoric as the Democrats are putting out.

[other one]

3 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

How many times does he need to repeat it for it to be just a case of misspeaking?

To use a tragedy like this for political favor among all the gun control advocates in the Democratic Party is highly suspect and despicable.

That should be easy for most people to agree with.

[Anonymous Aristotle]

25 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

How many times does he need to repeat it for it to be just a case of misspeaking?

To use a tragedy like this for political favor among all the gun control advocates in the Democratic Party is highly suspect and despicable.

Anti-gun politics most always enters into news reports like this don't they? People forget when they do that interjection that the first murder in history was with a rock. Should we outlaw rocks? It wasn't the rock that murdered Able. It was the heart and mind of the brother that wanted him dead that murdered Able.

[Running Gator]

30 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

To use a tragedy like this for political favor among all the gun control advocates in the Democratic Party is highly suspect and despicable.

 

26 minutes ago, other one said:

That should be easy for most people to agree with.

It should be easy for most people to agree with, yet when our current president used the tragedy in London for political favor among his base, nobody minded and in fact him doing so was defended as the right thing to do.  

Crazy how often the partisan double standard rears its ugly head 

[other one]

1 minute ago, Running Gator said:

 

It should be easy for most people to agree with, yet when our current president used the tragedy in London for political favor among his base, nobody minded and in fact him doing so was defended as the right thing to do.  

Crazy how often the partisan double standard rears its ugly head 

I think that is not comparable... 

 

[other one]

I think the governor needs to read his newspaper a little closer

 

 

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/va-gun-crime-drops-again-as-firearm-sales-soar/article_a9a3cd36-dc50-5192-9b97-e14258e6168a.html

Gun-related violent crime continues to drop in Virginia as the sales of firearms continue to soar, a pattern that one local criminologist finds interesting “given the current rhetoric about strengthening gun laws.”

Major gun crime collectively dropped for a fourth consecutive year statewide, while firearms sales climbed to a new record in 2012 with 490,119 guns purchased in 444,844 transactions — a 16 percent rise over 2011, according to federally licensed gun dealer sales estimates obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The proliferation of guns occurred as the total number of major reported crimes committed with all types of firearms in Virginia dropped 5 percent, from 4,618 offenses in 2011 to 4,378 last year, according to Virginia State Police data.

Looking back over seven years, total firearm sales in Virginia have risen a staggering 101 percent from 2006 to 2012, while gun-related crime has dropped 28 percent during that period.

“This appears to be additional evidence that more guns don’t necessarily lead to more crime,” said Thomas R. Baker, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs who specializes in research methods and criminology theory.

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Republican receives threat after shooting, warning "one down, 216 to go..."

A House Republican received a threatening email to her congressional office Wednesday following the shooting at the Republicans' practice for Thursday's congressional baseball game.

The lawmaker, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New York, received an email with the subject line: "One down, 216 to go…," according to a screenshot of the email provided by Tenney's office.

The body of the email read: "Do you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance." A threat was sent to Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New York on June 14, 2017 after the shooting in Alexandria.

Tenney's spokeswoman, Hannah Andrews, said her office receives similar threats all the time, but Andrews said, "This was particularly disturbing and disheartening given this morning's tragic events." Capitol Police have been informed about the threat, Andrews said.

On Tenney's official Facebook page, someone recently also posted a threatening comment aimed at her son, an active duty U.S. Marine currently deployed to the Middle East. The Memorial Day post said, "Waiting on your son to come back bagged," according to a screenshot provided by Tenney's office.

Tenney was elected to the House last November and previously served as a member of the New York State Assembly.

As a group of Republican lawmakers held baseball practice at a field in Alexandria, Virginia Wednesday morning, a gunman, now identified as James T. Hodgkinson, opened fire, wounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, two Capitol Police officers, Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist and Zachary Barth, a staffer for Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas. As of Wednesday afternoon, Scalise was out of surgery, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/re...nte?li=BBnb7Kz