Steve Scalise shot in Virginia, aide also hit

[Lenonis]

One day the right will lose its saint like restraint and answer violence with violence. I wonder if anyone will even be surprised when it happens at this rate.

no one will be surprised because right wing violence has been around for a while now. But nice try.

[AlmightyGerkin]

Wait till they point the finger at his he was a: muslim, isis, black etc.

[Shadoweye]

no one will be surprised because right wing violence has been around for a while now. But nice try.

You havent seen right wing violence in this country... Nor have you seen left wing violence... You have seen extremist violence (on both sides of the political spectrum). So yes, you would be surprised to see right wing violence. Much like most on the left, the right arent violent like you seem to think they are.

[Dastreus]

I hope no civilians got hurt.

This. I don't care about congress lives. They are a bunch of paid corporate shills who ruin the nation every year they're in office. There's a reason congress has around a 13% approval rating.

[Mittens]

After a couple of days, social media seems to confirm my suspicions. Socialists have a tendency to justify political violence, most of the arguments I see are a variation of he had it coming.

[Lenonis]

You havent seen right wing violence in this country... Nor have you seen left wing violence... You have seen extremist violence (on both sides of the political spectrum). So yes, you would be surprised to see right wing violence. Much like most on the left, the right arent violent like you seem to think they are.

i don't disagree. But you should go back and read the post I was responding to again.

[Kaleredar]

Attackers prefer attacking people who are defenseless. Maybe the dumb ass shooter thought the politicians there would not have armed security? But he could clearly see his targets were not armed.

Or he was trying to send a message and didn't care? you can't really say "well the attacker only attacked because he thought they weren't armed! Obviously he just overlooked that there would obviously be armed personnel!"

[GennGreymane]

[Omega10]

Does it matter? It made news all the same. One is clearly a target of districts/states that need to be won and not a literal assassination list. The other openly mocks an assassination of a sitting president. The left would have flipped shit (rightly so) if it was Obama being mocked.

Liar. This was discussed in a different thread. Four years earlier, the same group DID run the same play, with Obama being the victim rather than Trump. No flipping out happened.

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One day the right will lose its saint like restraint and answer violence with violence. I wonder if anyone will even be surprised when it happens at this rate.

Saint like restraint? You are completely delusional. The big loser of your delusions will be the right, though you may succeed in causing quite a bit of harm to America along the way

[PosPosPos]

Sounds like karma in action to me.

Jerk off over the 2nd amendment, get shot randomly.

[Deleted]

This. I don't care about congress lives. They are a bunch of paid corporate shills who ruin the nation every year they're in office. There's a reason congress has around a 13% approval rating.

Members of congress are civilians. The only ones who weren't civilians at that baseball game were the cops. You can try to spin it how you want, but literally only civilians got injured.

[Mormolyce]

In essence, since the victims did have armed support to stop the attacker.

You realise that the Second Amendment is not what gives police officers guns, yeah?

And they didn't stop him. He shot his target.

[Faloestin]

First off I hope everyone will be alright and I am glad the suspect is in custody and can face justice, violence is never acceptable.

But as a Republican voter said to a Republican senator during a townhall meeting "the greatest threat to my family is you".
If you set out to fuck up peoples lives as the Republicans are doing with the AHCA then your going to make people very mad, and some of those mad people will be mentally unstable enough to take matters in their own hands.

100% agree that political violence is not acceptable under any circumstances. Having said that, it's at least a little ironic that said Republicans are all about arming the folks inclined to shoot them.

[Ghostpanther]

Or he was trying to send a message and didn't care? you can't really say "well the attacker only attacked because he thought they weren't armed! Obviously he just overlooked that there would obviously be armed personnel!"

If you go and check shootings like the one this page is about, generally the shooters pick defenseless victims.

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You realise that the Second Amendment is not what gives police officers guns, yeah?

And they didn't stop him. He shot his target.

It is the same principle in action. The means to protect yourself with a firearm.

And a lot of people who know these circumstances better than you do, have said the armed security more than likely prevented a blood bath and saved lives.

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100% agree that political violence is not acceptable under any circumstances. Having said that, it's at least a little ironic that said Republicans are all about arming the folks inclined to shoot them.

Because those who do understand the 2nd Amendment gives the citizens the right to arm themselves. Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

[TITAN308]

Sounds like karma in action to me.

Jerk off over the 2nd amendment, get shot randomly.

Yes it would sound like karma to someone who is intellectually bankrupt.

[Ghostpanther]

Sounds like karma in action to me.

Jerk off over the 2nd amendment, get shot randomly.

Well, if there is karma ( which I do not believe in ) the 2nd Amendment worked well in this case http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16...l-arrests.html

[Ivanstone]

Its a good thing that heroic cops are around to save shitty bigoted politicians from crazy people.

I hope Scalise (aka David Duke without the baggage) takes the opportunity to reflect that his life was saved by a gay, black woman.

https://www.advocate.com/crime/2017/...idential-visit

[Daelak]

The left couldn't even get anything done even after waving the bloody flag after a bunch of kids were shot up by a nutjob in Sandy Hooks. Keep grasping at straws. Even bloody ones.

Of course in recent history, big surprise, yet another left wing nut job causes violence upon the people. At this rate people should be more afraid of left wing extremist than right wing extremist and muslims combined.

Why do you blame the left? Atleast they tried to abide by their constituency's wishes.

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The ATF cannot even properly maintain the NFA database. These ARE required registry items like suppressors, machine guns, short barrel rifles.

And you think our government can handle a database that is hundreds of millions times the size of this niche database?

ATF: NFA Records Are Unreliable, Often Missing

This is the most cynical type of argument that reactionaries have been saying about any public policy since time immemorial. Both the government and the private sector have the capacity and the expertise to process a database of that size. An argument that boils down to, 'gubmint can't do it because big numbers' is a cop out.

[unbound]

Its a good thing that heroic cops are around to save shitty bigoted politicians from crazy people.

I hope Scalise (aka David Duke without the baggage) takes the opportunity to reflect that his life was saved by a gay, black woman.

https://www.advocate.com/crime/2017/...idential-visit

I'm not aware of any Republican politicians (and not many Democrat politicians for that matter) that have any sense of decency and shame left anymore. I expect no reflection on his part.

[TITAN308]

I'm not aware of any Republican politicians (and not many Democrat politicians for that matter) that have any sense of decency and shame left anymore. I expect no reflection on his part.

Oh the fucking irony in both yours and Ivanstone's statement.

As far as I can tell neither of you two should be commenting on peoples decency or shame at this point regardless how shitty someone else might be.