Multiple people have been shot, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and aides, during a baseball practice in Virginia Wednesday, Fox News confirmed. The shots were reported on East Monroe Street in Del Ray, Alexandria police said on Twitter at 7:30 a.m. The location was near a YMCA.
- BROOKS: APPEARS SOME SECURITY DETAIL MEMBERS WERE INJURED
- BROOKS SAYS SECURITY DETAIL SHOT BACK AT ASSAILANT
A reporter from the Huffington Post tweeted that a congressman said he “heard there was a shooting at the Congressional baseball game practice field.” ABC 7 News reported “multiple shooting” in the 400 block of E. Monroe Street.
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#BREAKING Shooting at Congressional baseball practice. Scalise hit. Other staffers hit. Gunmen with rifle
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 14, 2017
A reporter from Fox News tweeted that staffers were hit.
According a report from Rep. Mo Brooke, who said he was not shot, more than 50 rifle shots were fired.
from @RepMoBrooks "Shooter attack at GOPpractice. Rifle. 50+ shots fired. 5 or more hit including GOP Whip steve scalise. I am not shot."
— Matt Murphy (@mattmurphyshow) June 14, 2017
Brooks adds that a helicopter landed in center field and took one of the wounded to a hospital, Rep. Brooks said
Helicopter landed in center field and took one of the wounded to a hospital, Rep. Brooks said
— Steve Brusk (@stevebruskNews) June 14, 2017
The suspected is “believed in custody,” ABC reported, according to Alexandria police.
#BREAKING: @AlexandriaVAPD report "multiple shooting" in 400 block of E Monroe and say "suspect believed in custody". Story to come. pic.twitter.com/8CqI83esjg
— ABC 7 News – WJLA (@ABC7News) June 14, 2017
I know that area. I do lots of RE work there. There are a shit ton of government cheese eaters (fed employees) living in that neighborhood. Average home price is somewhere around 700-800k.
The down vote must be from a government cheese eater.
Wip, it’s probably from the resident anoynyhole shill who posts his bullshit here from his cubicle at an office in DC.
I think people just get in a hurry and they hit the downvote by mistake. It happens to me all the time.
Know the area well. Lived right off Telegraph for years and worked out right near that field. Glad I’m gone. Jim Moran destroyed it.
Update: Virginia Police have confirmed the suspect is in custody and is no longer a threat. According to RealClearPolitics reports Rebecca Berg, Rep. Jeff Duncan plans to give a statement to police regarding a conversation he had with the shooter before leaving practice early. The man is said to have been wearing running clothes, and asked Duncan: “Are those Republicans or Democrats out there practicing?” Per source familiar.
More breaking headlines:
BROOKS: APPEARS SOME SECURITY DETAIL MEMBERS WERE INJURED
BROOKS SAYS SECURITY DETAIL SHOT BACK AT ASSAILANT
BROOKS: HELICOPTER LANDED ON FIELD TO TRANSPORT INJURED
BROOKS: AT LEAST 5 INJURED, INCL. SCALISE, STAFFER, 2 GUARDS
SEN. PAUL WITNESSED SHOOTING, HEARD `RAPID SUCCESSION OF SHOTS’
SEN. PAUL: `I PROBABLY HEARD 50, 60 SHOTS’
PAUL: EVERYONE LIKELY WOULD HAVE DIED IF NOT FOR CAPITOL POLICE
PAUL: LOOKED LIKE SCALISE SHOT IN LEG OR HIP
PAUL: CAPITOL HILL POLICE PREVENTED A ‘MASSACRE’ ON FIELD
SEN. PAUL SAYS DECISION WAS ‘STAY OR RUN’ DURING SHOOTING
SEN. RAND PAUL WAS IN BATTING CAGE DURING SHOOTING
INJURED GUNMAN IN CONGRESS MEMBER SHOOTING APPREHENDED: FOX
Rand Paul says he heard 50 to 60 shots
Rep. Rand Paul of Kentucky talked to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and told them he heard 50 or 60 shots.
He said he could see the shooter “way in the distance.”
“Everyone probably would have died” without the presence of Capitol Police, who ere there because Scalise is a member of leadership. “By him [Scalise] being there, he probably saved everyone else’s life.”
He continued about Capitol Police: “Had they not been there, it would have been a massacre. … We had no weapons and no place to hide.”
“By him [Scalise] being there, he probably saved everyone else’s life.”
Or perhaps the shooter wouldn’t have bothered if the third-ranking member of the House hadn’t been there.
It sound like the shooter only cared if the field was full of D’s or R’s.
Doesn’t Rand Paul have a CCW permit? This happened in Virginia. Could he not be legally carrying his own pistol? What about the various other attendees?
He probably has the CCW permit in Kentucky. I don’t know if they have reciprocity with VA. I have a CCW permit in PA, but can’t carry in NJ.
Good point, had to look it up. So far as I can tell Rand and others could be legal in two different ways:
1) Normal reciprocity
http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms_Reciprocity.shtm
2) Virginia non-resident permit
I’ll be curious to hear how this develops. If not one single one of them was carrying, when it appears they could legally do so, that sends its own message.
Incidentally, members of Congress are also immune to most law enforcement action while Congress is in session and that might be a third avenue to legal carry even without a permit, but obviously one that wouldn’t play well politically. See Article 1, Section 6. One can argue about the “felony” wording, but a reasonable interpretation would be what it meant in 1789, and concealed carry was not a crime, much less a felony, at that time.
Oh shit. Don’t bring up the Constitution while Special Ed is semi-lucid. He’ll talk about that hobbyhorse being a piece of paper worth pissing on. Bolshevik Ed.
Miles and Pilgrim, Randy probably just felt he had to say that he had a CC and that he was in favor of carrying. You can’t actually expect him to carry a pistol, or anything radical like that. He might roon his political career or something, you know.
Hard to play baseball with a gun strapped to your person.
Ha! I actually find it hard NOT to play baseball when I have a gun strapped to my person.
This place says KY & VA have reciprocity.
A helpful resource.
http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html
Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet 3m3 minutes ago
Now watch the media blame guns rather than their own anti-Trump hysteria for the shooting of the Republican Congressmen. #Alexandria
So for those calling for civil war, maybe you’re seeing the beginning of it.
Yet the questions remain thus far:
Was it an Antifa-minded, white male with a semi-automatic weapon (who just saw Trump assassinated at “Shakespeare in the Park”), now fighting the fascist Trump regime?
Or an angry, Deplorable white male with a semi-automatic weapon, warning Republicans to get behind Trump or else?
In the case of the former, would the Democrats now decelerate their attacks on the Second Amendment? Or, in the event of the latter, will they soon expedite them?
Either way, stay tuned as the world turns and the real spin begins.
It’s a shame McCain doesn’t play baseball.
Just in… a Bernie supporter.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/343801-breaking-shooter-identified-as-66-year-old-james-t-hodgkinson-anti-trump-bernie-sanders-supporter/
Unfortunately, it’s usually the buildup of a string of small events. Then the powder keg blows. The powder keg is going to be uber painful for Democrats. Flyover country cold anger is long lasting and deeper and the hothead city slickers are going to find out the hard way.
To those of you wishing for civil war, you may wanna listen to the wisdom of George Washington. War is horrific. There is a way to avoid it but if myopic dipshits on both sides don’t start thinking about statewide referenda or conventions then there’s no avoiding the inevitable.
How surprising: articleboy has mounted his Constitutional Convention hobbyhorse and is riding like mad in the corner again. This is an unexpected development indeed…../sarc.
Lol. Referring to the only document that matters in terms of the rule of law as a hobbyhorse. You’re a fucking disgrace. Now go jump up some fag’s ass and grab a ham sandwich.
I’m referring to you, asshole, you and your hobbyhorse fanaticism about holding a Con Con. You’re not likely to last long around here unless you manage to buy a scorecard and find out who’s who.
BTW, I’ll bet you a grand that if you met me face to face, and got a good look at me, you’d immediately STFU, unless you’re as big a fool as you act here.
Good Lord, lighten up Ed! Life is too short to be keeping Internet scorecards! Stop, enjoy some coffee, enjoy political debate with some interspersed ad hominems. Jeeeebus! I got enough shit on my plate without having to worry about online lunacy as well! Lol
If it makes you feel good inside, do you know where I’ve been all day??? In the fucking hospital with my wife. Now why aren’t I getting upset and you are??? Wish I were lying! Life is too short so enjoy the online stupidity!
“Now why aren’t I getting upset and you are???”
It’s probably the multiple generations of inbreeding in his family.
That’s inbred Ed on the far right. Kinda explains why you’d have to STFU if you met it face to face…..you just wouldn’t know what to say. 🙂 He sorta reminds me of Dr. Mephesto’s sidekick “Kevin” on Southpark.
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Fuckin’ hell goop-eye, that was mean even for you.
Well, I do what I can. I checked the roster and it was my turn to fling shit so…….
Besides, I was in da mood! :_)
I pretty sure that one 4th from the right is one of those When Mars Attacks martians.
I think the far left is Anderson Cooper as a college student.
A Bernie Sanders whack goes full retard and the STM give big thumbs up for CW. Have to wonder how excited you would be to actually lose everything…….big thumbs up for war, right.
Where is the video? Surely someone had a cellphone, they tweeted but did not record video?
Of course BL. It was all faked. This isn’t really a congressman being taken into an ambulance. Rand Paul is making up everything he saw. Sometimes it isn’t a false flag conspiracy. Jesus H. Christ!!!!
For people who can’t face reality, everything is some kind of conspiracy or “false flag” and nothing ever actually happened the way it obviously actually happened.
It will be interesting to see who the shooter is aligned with, if aligned with anyone, or if it was just a mental case that went off because of the rather vicious MSM/Leftist campaign against the Republicans and the right.
Yeah, well, some people can’t face TBP unless they post anonymously, so there’s that too.
Your point?
note… false flag doesnt necessarily mean fake. A false flag can also be any planned, actual and possibly violent event to sway opinion and decisions one way or another.
not that this is but given your comment it would lead me to believe you have a misunderstanding of the term.
Anon- The shooter is a Bernie Sanders nut, do you think that is interesting?
Interesting, but not surprising.
a few comments by folks pointed out that in the event of a “false flag” persons of name or title wouldnt be injured (only the masses). It was also pointed out that if it was a hit, it wouldnt have failed.
Regardless it would be more interesting to know if this practice was on their congressional calendars, as well as its location or did the shooter stumble upon it; however he did have to ask if they were R or D? (It was also said in the press that the dems were practicing at the same time at a field several miles away.)
Since it was a politician who claimed that somebody asked him that question, it could very well be bullshit. Since it was a CNN reporter tweeting about it, it could have been a bullshit report of a bullshit statement, in a bullshit attempt to imply that it was the shooter who asked that.
In the middle of a shooting situation, when your brain is fully engaged in trying to comprehend what is going on and how to survive it, you would have the presence of mind to get out your cell phone to video the event?
The media has been whipping up a frenzy of hatred anyone even slightly to the right of hardcore communist. They have to be held accountable for the violence they are promoting. It is the start of a civil war, one in which the radical leftist ‘mainstream’ media will find themselves blindfolded, back against the wall, and their Che T shirt from college will provide a nice point for the firing squad to aim.
That is the stupidest thing ever posted on TBP.
Nothing happens now days that somebody doesn’t video it and put it on youtube. If they were tweeting, you would think they could also record it visually. And I did not say anything about conspiracy, now did I?
Bea, there’s nothing about it on youtube besides msm news reports that I can find. Give it time. Naturally, there’s Randy Paul, all dressed in his Wednesday suit on Fauxnews giving his “oh, thank God for the cops” spiel. He still hasn’t combed his hair since the last time Faux interviewed him, though.
We know you’d prefer him to style his hair like some queerbait Trotskyite. Who gives a shit what he fucking looks like? At least he espouses *some* liberty-minded principles. Or would you rather he has perfect Chris Martin hair, suck cock, and worship Marx???
I’d prefer he let you suck his cock. Maybe then you’d STFU about your mancrush on him.
You have this raging hard-on for bashing anything positive about libertarians or conservative-leaning libertarians. Stop overdosing on Viagra old man. It’s affecting your ability to think coherently.
Since you’re a noob here, and have no fucking idea who I bash or what my philosophy is, why don’t you just go write one of your stalking emails to Randy Paul. He isn’t a conservative OR a libertarian anyway, not that you’d know the difference if one crawled up your leg and bit your little pink pud.
Special Ed, by noob you must be referring to the fact that I haven’t posted here much over the years. That would be correct. It would be because some of us Xers are still trying to boost the labor participation rate. I don’t expect you to know what that rate is, so you are forgiven.
I also wouldn’t expect you to know much about *any* political view that is liberty minded. That’s ok, too. Believe me, we’re ok when you bang dudes and swoon over their hairplugs. It takes all kinds to make a village.
Now go in peace my son! Enjoy your twilight years and don’t get your heartrate up.
opening salvos
Too bad it isn’t a Muslim, maybe then they’d get the message.
If he was Muslim, they’d never let him be the Majority Whip.
Never say never, Indy.
I can’t believe what I’m reading today. A mass shooting targeting the GOP? What the hell…
WHAT? You can’t believe it? What are you, some kinda conspiracy nutjob or something, over there?
Buzz off jackass. There’s never been a mass shooting targeting elected members of a political party in the history of this country.
Get a grip, Clammy. It was a joke, already. Sheesh.
Ah, sarcasm isn’t always easily conveyed on TBP.
I know it. Well, at least you didn’t call me Special Ed again. 😉
There’s never been a mass shooting targeting elected members of a political party in the history of this country.
No?
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/puerto-rican-nationalists-wound-five-representatives
You have to excuse Clammy for that one, Lala. She was responding under pressure, thinking that she was under attack by some raging nutjob noob who mistook her for some raging nutjob conspiracy theorist or something… over there… already.
Don’t forget Jared Lee Loughner.
Stephanie has really grown up in the past few years. Go Lady.(girl seems disrespectful to me). She isn’t a soft target on TBP anymore.
She never was a soft target.
Well, I guess it’s just me but if the shooter had a rifle and fired 50-60 shots and only hit about 6 targets then he must be one of the libtard militia supporting antifa and BLM. Reports indicate he was shooting for about 10 minutes and reloaded multiple times. Guess these idiots never heard of aim small, miss small.
In all seriousness these facts pretty much guarantee it was some leftist/SJW or some mentally ill patsy. I would expect a 30-50% casualty rate per shot fired if the shooter had been a stereotypical right-winger. If they are later portrayed as such, be suspicious.
Ken, it may have been 10-12 shots fired over a space of 30 seconds. Eyewitness accounts can be pretty far off the mark when the eyewitnesses are excited/terrified over what they witnessed. When the eyewitnesses are members of Congress, the eyewitness reports are also likely to be total bullshit, made up on the spot.
I noticed the words “assault rifle” have been absent from this narrative. Is it an “assault rifle” only when children, minorities, women, and gays are struck & killed?
In the MSM’s view, if the shooter was really targeting Republicans, then it will have been “a glorious organic fair-trade-sourced tool of diversity and tolerance education”!!!
Have you checked CNN? Seems they would have trotted that one out already.
Hmm…lined up with their Che’ T-shirts…classic !
That song by John Prine comes to mind that your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore….nor will a Che’ T-shirt
Sounds like the shooter had a 22. A larger caliber gun wouldn’t have left Salias sitting upright on a gurney. Probably a leftist idiot as a serious gunman could have wiped out the GOP majority in Congress!
I don’t know any serious gunmen who are also leftist idiots, but it could happen, I suppose. It’s like I suppose there might be honest politicians, but I don’t know of any.
The Bernie nut shooter was a SUPER MADDOW FAN……….the surprises never stop.
A sad day for our country. The media and politicians are to blame as is the idiot that did the deed. But the gun and magazine capacity will be blamed. When partisan politics keep being played so they can all continue to eat ever bigger peices of cheese rather than make this country the best it can be. I cannot understand why, if everything a politician does is to make us better, properly spend money, and plant a prosperous seed why we are not all on the same side. If someone cannot see the outcome of their laws or rules even after much proof things are not working well, a businessman will change tactics or strategy, but politicians throw more bad money after the bad idea. Then partisan politics happen…..why because the are all getting rich off us. Why does every politician enter government broke but leave a few years later multi millionaires and we do or say nothing…..then idiots get so crazy crap like this happens and affects all our freedoms and peace. I can only imagine if it were the other side did this how the media will keep this in the news for months….this will pass within a week since it was one of their own…..
I’d bet up to $1.37 that this Leftist Fuckstain went out to buy an Evil Black Rifle ™ to go kill some Evil Fascists and ended up getting the 22LR version because it was Evil and Black and in-budget for the unemployable Leftist Fuckstain bank account, without bothering to check what caliber it actually was chambered for. I mean, they’re black so they all look the same, right? Then he asked the gun store person for a box of shells (/s), then probably had to get instructions on how to load the clip (/s). Then went straight past Go and directly to Commie Pairadice because Leftist Fuckstains typically don’t know that rifles, especially rimfire ones, do need to be zeroed and adjusted for the particular shells (/s) any given Leftist Fuckstain plans to use to spread their diversity and social justice on a baseball field.
Fucking maroons. If this is the ramp-up to CW2, it ain’t exactly gonna go well for them, is it?
Welcome back ecliptix. Ain’t seen you around in ages.
I.S. – I try to drop by for special occasions and today’s festivities were a doozy. Had to see what the STM’s were on about. Comments section at ZH is tiresome and I never did set up an account there. It is nice to see a handful of the old crew still kicking around, including yourself.
Rdawg – That’s why the little sarc tags are next to my intentionally inaccurate descriptions of common firearm components. You know, in case a leftist fucktard reads it I want them to understand me too :). And I don’t know about you, but my SKS has mags. Clips are for cartridge storage and inventory. Don’t have a Garand, though I’ve been fiending for a good M1A/M14 type for YEARS.
I listened to the audio track of that couple minute long vid Admin posted and it sounds – through my computer speakers replaying shitty cell recording – like a ping pong of 9mm/40S&W and 5.56 at about 1/2 mile, which based on the usual expected equipment for a scenario like this is what it might well have been. I don’t know what they were actually shooting at each other being 500 miles away and all, but 22LR Stingers are pretty damn loud out of a shorter barreled weapon, so it could have been a AR pattern 22LR. Early morning like that the sound will carry farther and appear louder to the ears than it otherwise would later in the day. Leftists never were very good at firearm nomenclature anyway, so why should we expect them to be worth a shit when shopping for a gun? I’m thinking he saw the $350 one next to the $800 one and they were both scary looking, so he went for the cheap one. Thus, maroon.
Apologies. I was unfamiliar with the (/s) notation. Thank you for educating me.
I tried those Tapco detachable mags for my SKS but didn’t like them. I have the standard 10 round fixed mag and a shit-ton of those stripper clips. I have looked far and wide for the 20 round fixed mag, but am so far unwilling to pay the ridiculous prices.
I was going to give you shit about saying “shells” too, but didn’t want to come off as an asshole. Well, as more of an asshole than usual.
No worries. Unfettered assholery is the main draw for this site! I’ll answer to shouts of “Hey asshole!!” in public. Wifey hates it.
I used to have one of the OE 20rd fixed box mags off a Norinco. Sold it a few years ago. If I still had it, I’d send it to ya.
About those Tapcos – I tried the first generation of them with the original beech stock and they weren’t worth a shit. I think I even just threw them out since I didn’t know anybody else with a SKS at the time. Last year I got one of those ATI Monte Carlo stocks for mine (an ’86 Yugo) and decided to try the detachable thing again. Got two from Midway on sale for $12 each and they both work flawlessly. I was always a fan of the fixed 10rd box myself, makes for an easier prone shot and doesn’t stab me in the ribs when I sling it over my shoulder, but these newer poly 20rd Tapcos hold 21 if you’re going hot right away or will hold 20 and you can push the first round down a bit to close the bolt over an empty chamber for storage and still have a full mag. Only bitch I’ve got with the new layout is the cheek weld height changed so the iron sights are a pain to line up. I ended up just dialing up the front post and rear leaf really high then re-zeroed them to 200m so I could still use the fucking things. No optics of course. It’s basically impossible to find a decent mount for an SKS and those rifles aren’t supposed to be hyper accurate anyway (though the Hornady SST will make a BIG difference over Russian steel cased out to 400m). Minute of grapefruit at 200m as-is with the steel cheapies. Good enough for gov’t work!
All of this discussion would of course be complete gibberish to the Leftist Fuckstain from earlier today… My gun hating wife scored more 8 ring-or-better hits the first time she ever shot a gun (last year!) than this guy in VA did. Thank God this latest batch of 21st century commies can’t shoot worth a fuck.
Hey thanks for the info! I may give the detachables another look.
I had to chuckle about your “gun hating wife”. I have one of those too. Except that’s not quite true, is it? Yeah, she says she hates guns. But years ago we were tent camping and heard some strange noises in the pitch black of night.
Wife: “Are you awake?”
Me: “Yeah”
Wife: ” Do you have a gun?”
Me: “Yeah”
Wife: “Good”
I bought her a .22 semi-auto. She complained she really wanted a 9mm. Gun-hater indeed.
ecliptix said:
Unfettered assholery…”
That should be the motto of this place! In an *angry* font spell it out between THE BURNING PLATFORM and the image at the top of every page!
I think you mean magazine, which is different than a clip.
Unless you’re talking about an M1 Garand or maybe an SKS, in which case clip nomenclature would be appropriate; but then again those are not usually regarded as an Evil Black Rifle™.