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Title: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Lana Reverse on June 14, 2017, 02:50:50 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/multiple-people-injured-after-shooting-in-alexandria/2017/06/14/0289c768-50f6-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/multiple-people-injured-after-shooting-in-alexandria/2017/06/14/0289c768-50f6-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html)

I wish I could say I was surprised, but with how divisive politics have gotten recently, something like this was probably inevitable.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: dpareja on June 14, 2017, 04:09:47 pm
I posted some stuff about the attack over in the Trump goes to Washington thread, but here I'll say this:

The way to get someone out of Congress is to defeat them at the ballot box after a campaign in which you proved to the electorate that your policies and ideas are superior to your opponent's policies and ideas. Attempting to remove them from Congress through violence is completely unacceptable.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Id82 on June 14, 2017, 04:45:12 pm
I dislike the republicans because of the stuff they believe in, but I would never wish death upon them in anyway. The man that did this was unhinged and psychotic like Jared Lee Loughner or Timothy Mcveigh.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: ironbite on June 14, 2017, 05:37:36 pm
As much as I've said shit about the GOP being the first ones against the wall during the revolution, this is not the revolution.  This is just disgusting.

Ironbite-and the man was apparently a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: dpareja on June 14, 2017, 05:49:22 pm
As much as I've said shit about the GOP being the first ones against the wall during the revolution, this is not the revolution.  This is just disgusting.

Ironbite-and the man was apparently a Bernie Sanders supporter.

There are deranged individuals of every political stripe.

From what I've heard, he was also a domestic abuser, you know, the sort of person that any country with semi-sane gun laws wouldn't get within a hundred feet of a gun.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Eiki-mun on June 14, 2017, 05:50:10 pm
This kind of violence is unforgivable and should not be tolerated, obviously. To suggest otherwise would be stupid and evil.

Still, a certain dark part of my mind is glad to finally see Republicans being the ones shot at for once...
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Skybison on June 14, 2017, 06:24:56 pm
Good News, this mass shooting will not result in Trump taking away your guns.  Donald Trump jr is already leading the charge against the one who was really the cause of the shooting:  William Shakespeare.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-caesar-tweet/index.html
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on June 15, 2017, 07:17:40 am
It's a shame when someone of your own political stripe turns out to be a complete cockhole but that's an excellent reason why political values shouldn't be the sole criteria on which people are judged.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 15, 2017, 07:40:02 am
I thought that was what genital size was for...
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: dpareja on June 16, 2017, 04:17:53 am
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/congressional-baseball-1.4163006

The Dems thumped the Republicans 11-2 in the game, but the Roll Call Trophy will likely live in Rep. Scalise's office until he returns to the floor.
Title: Re: Gunman Fires at Congressional Baseball Practice
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on July 08, 2017, 04:51:37 am
Good News, this mass shooting will not result in Trump taking away your guns.  Donald Trump jr is already leading the charge against the one who was really the cause of the shooting:  William Shakespeare.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-caesar-tweet/index.html

Inb4 dumbshits start to claim Shakespeare wrote hidden messages in his play to incite a satanic, godless commie revolution.
...Actually there's probably a video hidden in the bowels of youtube about that by this point already.