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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Majority whip Steve Scalise and others, including law enforcement, shot at baseball practice early this morning. Shooter in custody according to what I just saw.
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Two comments:
1) Recall that, in February, all but two House Republicans voted to overturn an Obama administration rule that blocked Social Security disability recipients with mental disorders from buying guns. Scalise was not one of the two Republicans who voted against the measure.
I'm not saying that the shooter was mentally ill, but, well, votes have consequences Mr. Congressman.
2) A cynic might plausibly theorize that the shooting is simply an orchestrated distraction that was timed to take people's attention away from a string of bad news. One can only imagine who the possible conductor of this orchestration might be....