This morning’s Alexandria, VA shooter has been identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials.
Hodgkinson owns a home inspection business. 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, Illinois. The charges were dismissed, records show.
While police have refused to confirm whether the attack was politically motivated, Hodgkinson’s Facebook page seems to indicate he was a Bernie fan and didn’t particularly care for Donald Trump, to put it mildly.
“I want to say Mr. President, for being an ass hole you are Truly the Biggest Ass Hole We Have Ever Had in the Oval Office.”
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Apparently Hodgkinson was convinced that Trump was guilty of treason even though we still haven’t seen any evidence of such allegations after 6 months of intensive investigations….
“Trump is Guilty & Should Go to Prison for Treason.”
.. and he thought he was “mean.”
“Trump is a Mean, Disgusting Person.”
He also publicly offered up his opinions on the Georgia special election that is still underway:
“Republican Bitch Wants People to Work for Slave Wages, when a Livable Wage is the Only Way to Go! Vote Blue, It’s Right for You!”
I looked up the guy’s Facebook profile. Nothing but extreme leftist political posts and anti-Trump rants.
The Zoo used to be the place to visit when you wanted to visit lower life forms; today, just watch liberals on TV or read about their beastly actions.
It was just a matter of time until someone on left who felt that his/hers/or its rights, freebies or handouts got threatened would resort to something like this. You cannot manufacture a daily crisis and run banner headlines on web pages, radio programs, nyt, bozos blog, la times et al and not have someone crack up………so thank you cnn and the two clowns in the am, thank you pmsnbc and mancow at night and continuing lies paraded around by every classless clown and weasel who’s meal ticket begins in a fund citation based on george soros latest gift. The complete lack of any journalistic integrity demonstrated by a writer for the style page of bozos blog that basically stated the telling the truth does not matter for the President and any lie in the path of his destruction is just fine with them…
The entire American media (including faux) would not know the truth if it bit them on the ass and introduced itself to them and also lack the ethics and integrity to tell the truth if they did…..
Bernie Sanders supporters don’t shoot people, guns shoot people.
Wait…….have I got that backwards?
The slasher on the Portland transit train was also a Bernie guy. Starting to see a pattern….
Democrats should not own guns-
murder stats on a national county map-this overlays almost exactly w/the red-blue electoral maps–
He probably has a “Billionaires don’t own Bernie” bumper sticker on his car. Snowflakes are not only stupid, but now they are becoming dangerous as well.
Can you imagine how the apoplectic the democratic left and the globalist media shills would be if Obama was president and American Express subsidized a play where Barry was assassinated, and then, subsequently, a conservative white male shot at Chucky Schumer? Do you think the media would be spinning things differently now? Do you? Hypocrites, all!
Hunting republicans?
This could be a long hot summer………………., hey, was that a Black Swan?
Bernie Supporter – a communist.
I would have preferred a Hillary supporter.
Zara
Same thing politically, save that Bernie is not a criminal.
Yeah, but where are you going to find one?
Zara, what can I say? I’m as shocked as you are over here.
For 20 plus years Mike Savage has been telling people Liberalism is a mental disorder.
We’re now seeing it manifest itself. Prepare to defend yourselves and your loved ones.
I started carry a pistol ( 45 cal ) everywhere I went. It was because of the young males who prey on white folks .
Now I’ve had to include Libtards to the mix.
Oh well…could this be the “Summer Of Violence ” ?
I carry too, Buck. It ain’t just white folks these predators target, y’know. Libtards might even shoot me trying to shoot some old white dude I’m selling beads to. Makes me feel like Barbarosa, “Hell, the little sonofabitch was up in a tree. Now I gotta look up there, too.”
Based on the reports so far this nut did a lot of shooting. He missed a hell of a lot…. at close range.
I’d bet that he just recently purchased the rifle,had the gun shop bore sight it in and then thought he was a sniper. Typical Libtard .
He tried to do some target practice but the dumb fuck did it in his yard and the neighbors called the cops.
That could have saved a few lives today.
I`m not sure I care anymore who shot what. The political science crowd begot the memes intended to pit neighbor against neighbor, who paid for the votes and whos pablum incessantly teaches us how to fear and not try to defend ourselves.
Note to Scalias aid….Stay at work and destruct all that has been dumped on the working classes lap these last eight years, at least.
(Really…practicing for a ballgame in the early hours in the middle of the work week) Really???
VA Governor McCauliffe claims we lose 93million Americans to gun violence EVERY DAY..A few more days and we’ll all be dead.
I’m not allowed to call you a fucking moron McCauliffe, but I can think you’re a fucking moron….and I think you’re a fucking moron. I hope you die from ovarian cancer.
Weed, apparently he’s already ate up with the PMS.
Just so y’all know, Terry Mac is only governor because of massive vote fraud. The way it goes in Virginia is that the northern counties around DC just fuckin appoint a governor and the rest of the state might as well not even vote.
we don’t respect that guy, he got gun deaths confused
with unemployment numbers.
I heard the Bernie Sanders loving democrat died from his wounds…that makes me smile. So long shitstain.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/290892-trump-says-second-amendment-folks-could-stop-clinton
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If you don’t think a civil war has already started, you aren’t paying attention.
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Mum’s the word…don’t let coinchucker and ‘nam-limper know.
At last a STUPID libtard taken out with a taxpayer relief shot by 2 Capitol Police officers to prove once and for all if people are allowed to carry concealed weapons this dirtbag and others like him would have been put into eternal sleep mode a lot sooner by properly armed citizens. We shouldn’t have to have armed guards protecting people, they should be able to protect themselves. Had it not been for these 2 brave officers returning fire we could have many more dead on that ball field this morning.
The administrator is correct in saying the civil war has began and if you don’t have a concealed carry weapon you are nothing more than an easy target for someone to pick off at their desire. Hopefully, this will spur the debate for National Concealed Carry Laws to be enacted.
If you don’t like guns then don’t carry one, but the ones of us that do want to carry should be allowed to do so to protect ourselves and our families legally.
“We shouldn’t have to have armed guards protecting people, they should be able to protect themselves. ”
True enough, as far as it goes but the people who have created the current atmosphere do have armed guards, though they still got shot at. Anyway, Congress is going to have armed guards following them around while they pass laws that prohibit the rest of us from guarding our own families and ourselves.
Even a five year old can see how bad this is and say something like, “Hey, it ain’t no fair”. Why can’t our supposedly adult legislators see the same thing? Could it be because they are guarded by armed men?
Precisely!!!
And throw in even better Healthcare and pile the perks on for the political class as their job risks will be exaggerated beyond credibility
This could have been a lot worse if the blurb I heard was correct.
The reason cops were there was because Scalise is a member of leadership.
While we may not need each representative to have their own security,when they are meeting in public they should have security.
If we start down the road of assassination it will get bad very rapidly.
Really, was the shooter a member of some group? Maybe they have said, been very busy.
EDIT: I don’t count FB groups as legit. Are you trying to tell me that we are in a CW over Farcebook crap/groups? Okie Dokie
The shooter was a member of a group that calls itself “Terminate The Republican Party” They posted this to social media after the shooting:
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A Washington Times article about the group Terminate the Republican Party.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/14/terminate-the-republican-party-followers-celebrate/
Zuckerjoo is slacking in the 1984 department if he allows hate group to post threats.
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I just subjected myself to an hour of MSNBC. I felt a lot of relief when they announced that the FBI stated that a person shooting at exclusively republican congressmen isn’t politically motivated. I laughed out loud when their mouthpiece reporting from the hospital spun the events as a case of “Wrong place at the wrong time.”
So far my questions are
1) Why do we still not have an accurate accounting of the injuries sustained by the victims? Exactly how many were shot? Where was Rep. Scalise hit?
2)Why are so many people inside the crime scene tape wearing Tshirts? Does the FBI have casual Wednesdays now?
3)Why does ATF always show up at these crime scenes? Do they investigate every alcohol related driving fatality also? Why don’t they treat tobacco related deaths (It says cigarettes will kill you right there on the package) as seriously as gun related deaths?
Over time MSNBC might answer my questions but by then I will have ten more.
Anyway, I’ve got weeds that aren’t going to whack themselves.
1) Details on the severity of injuries are not supposed to be reported until family members are notified.
2) FBI doesn’t need to be in coat and ties to investigate a crime scene.
3) The “F” in ATF means firearms, dummy.
My sincere hope is that someone on our side doesn’t react in kind. Most of the recent lunatic shooting incidents I can recall involved deranged libtards (sorry for the redundancy) or musloids. We don’t need to give the msm any ammunition (snicker) to use against us.
Until the time is right. And I don’t think this is it.
by Karl Denninger
Are We Done With The 2nd Amendment Debate Yet?
This morning there was a shooting at a baseball practice by Republican members of Congress who were getting ready for a charity baseball game.
The shooter has been identified as a 66 year old man from Belleville IL who apparently traveled to VA to perform his attempted acts of murder. There are unconfirmed reports that before opening fire he asked whether there were Democrats or Republicans were on the field and was told there were Republican members practicing.
Let’s stop the bull**** right here and now folks, because one of the members present told you everything you need to know about what should be the case when it comes to bad guys and guns:
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., told CNN, people scattered when the shooting began. Scalise was standing in the in the infield and fell where he stood.
“He was not able to move under his own power. He was dragging his body from second base,” Brooks said. “There was not a whole lot we could do. He was shot in the hip. I think it was not a life-threatening wound.”
“It’s not easy when you see people around you being shot and you don’t have a weapon yourself,” Brooks said. “You feel helpless.”
You feel helpless because you evil bastards have stood by while America’s Constitution is systematically shredded.
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It’s not complicated folks, and there are no exceptions noted in the 2nd Amendment. There’s no “if you have a permit”, for example. There’s no “if it’s a gun we like”, there’s no “if you pass a background check” and there’s no “if you’re a cop.”
Mr. Brooks, cut the crap. It’s high time for Jeff Sessions and the rest of the US Government to restore the 2nd Amendment to is actual language by any means necessary, including preemption and, if necessary, mass pardons.
It’s not just terrorist threats, although that’s plenty of reason standing alone. Trump derangement syndrome among those who simply hate (and who seem to be concentrated along the left) is plenty of reason as well, and people are already finding pieces of evidence that the shooter might have been a member of that “fine” group of people among his alleged social media accounts.
Do it now Mr. Brooks and Mr. President.
there are no exceptions noted in the 2nd Amendment
What part of “well-regulated” do you not understand?
What part Of comma usage do you not understand?
B-I-N-G-O! Karl.
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Allow me to clue you all in on a few facts….
Fact one: This is just the opening salvo (no pun intended). There will be more violence and it will kick off another civil war in this country–started by the leftists.
Fact two: Despite what you hear from Bernie Sanders, and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Communist Democratic Party (CDP) leadership, denouncing this violence…. secretly they are all behind the scenes shitting their pants with glee over this shooting and secretely wishing that this “Leftist Terrorist” had killed the GOP leadership (Ryan and the rest) when he had the chance.
Ignore what these cocksuckers are saying publically–they are all in favor of this type of action.
Fact three: Who’s to blame? –you can blame MSNBC, CNN, Kathy Griffin, Kieth Olberman and the rest of the media talking heads who are inflaming this country to the brink of Civil War II…. and they will be sucessful at their efforts. However, “they/them” will not like the result of their civil war. These leftist kooks actually believe that they will succeed because the power arms (police, military, etc.) of the government in the critical “blue states” will obey their policital masters.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. In reality–these “power actors” are largely in their positions for a paycheck and are also politically conservative or libertarian with their personal beliefs… and these people will NOT go that extra mile to pulls the levers of tyranny for the left. The leftists/anarchists will in fact be crushed completely… right down to their political leadership along with their MSM propaganda talking heads, their studios and their office .
It will in fact be a total blowout French Revolution style.
Wrap your skulls around this please.
not so sure you’re correct about the cops but i hope you are–
Facts: I don’t think it means what you think it means.
What I read in your comment were a collection of opinions. Opinions that I largely agree with, by the way.
But facts they are not.
So, you know what’s going to happen. What are the numbers for the next Powerball? Hurry up, now. I need to buy a ticket.
They are trying to intimidate us. Wonder if it will work. We’ll see how much balls the alt right has
dangerous cultists have had there fill of the kool aid, what else remains to them ?
A Bernie supporter shooting at Republicans doesn’t make sense, the Republicans didn’t defeat Bernie, the DNC did.
It would be more logical if he shot Debbie Wasserman Schultz or Donna Brazile.
But at least now we have proof that if you buy a black rifle, you don’t instantly become John Rambo.
According to the U.S. Army, the average soldier will hit a man-sized target 10 percent of the time at 300 meters using the M16A2 rifle.
But they say this libtard fired more than 50 rounds and killed no one, that’s a 50 to 0 kill ratio.
So, as usual we have the same story, 1 shooter dead, a black rifle was allegedly used, and Demonrats calling for gun control.
It doesn’t surprise me that the media is playing up the angle that the Congressman shot is in critical condition from a hip wound, after all, it will look good when he’s campaigning in 2018…
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