Disaster Multiple shooting incident in DC, top Republican congressman and aides among the casualties - kebab or dindu at fault?

A US Republican politician and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia, US reports say.

Police in the upmarket Washington DC suburb of Alexandria said they were investigating a "multiple shooting" and a suspect was in custody.

Fox News said House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise and aides have been hit by gunfire.

Police tweeted they were "investigating multiple shooting 400 block E Monroe St. Suspect believed in custody."

An apparent eyewitness said on Twitter that gunfire rang out at the YMCA baseball fields, by the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park.

The witness, @ben_childers, said it happened at a congressional baseball team practice session.

Local media report there is a major police presence after the attack.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40275055

If he dies, will there be a special election for his seat before the 2018 midterms?

 

[Fareal]

This is something the authorities should be asking.

How come in every one of these attacks, Sam Hyde is somehow not arrested?

Coincidence?

I honest to god could not figure out why the guy in Quantum Leap was being blamed for mass shootings. I was trying to remember if I had ever seen an episode where there was some kind of political assassination. Was there a JFK episode, maybe?

So I went to the repository of all useless human knowledge to find out.

Beckett. The guy in Quantum Leap is Sam Beckett.

I still don't know who Sam Hyde is but I'm guessing I wouldn't care

 

[Marvin]

Bernie Sander's comment on the House Floor about the incident:

Muslims should learn something from Bernie's reaction here. But they won't...

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

When you're so triggered you just gotta pull a trigger.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Just been to Steve Scalise's Twitter. This is his banner:

Thank fuck the shooter didn't know what he was doing.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

I'm also liberal as shit, but goddamn

Are SJW's going to frame this as "Reeeee Toxic Masculinity Gun Nut Culture" or "Reeeee those Republicans deserved it"?

Boy howdy I sure do love the modern American political climate. Fuck this shit, I'm starting my own country. With hookers! And blackjack!

The "deserved it" one. As I said in the Moviebob thread, that sentiment isn't really uncommon anymore.

 

[Arse Biscuit]

There is a prescedent for wackos attacking politicians. The guy who shot President Garfield was never let out of an asylum after the deed.

Sure he was. You could in fact say they let him down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

Boy howdy I sure do love the modern American political climate. Fuck this shit, I'm starting my own country. With hookers! And blackjack!

We tried. It...didn't go as planned.

Thankfully, no one was killed and everyone who was injured is stable. They're expected to recover nicely.

Gods, what a nice thing to hear for once.

 

[AnOminous]

No, people didn't.

Are you seriously claiming birthers didn't exist and that Trump wasn't one of them?

Are you literally retarded?

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

When will the media say it? Radical socialist terrorism!

 

[Dunsparce]

Are you seriously claiming birthers didn't exist and that Trump wasn't one of them?

Are you literally exceptional?

This, really. I know people IRL that consistently vote Republican and have as recently as a few weeks ago ranted at me about believing that Obama wasn't born in the US.

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

Well this didn't age well:

http://archive.is/Y4q34

 

[Joan Nyan]

Well this didn't age well:

http://archive.is/Y4q34

Are you saying Rand Paul is tyrannical? Tyrannical government means like, concentration camps, like the ones progressive Democrat FDR had for the Japs.

 

[Arse Biscuit]

Are you saying Rand Paul is tyrannical? Tyrannical government means like, concentration camps, like the ones progressive Democrat FDR had for the Japs.

Rand Paul didn't get shot. This other guy did.

In any case, who decides when it's tyranny?

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

Are you saying Rand Paul is tyrannical? Tyrannical government means like, concentration camps, like the ones progressive Democrat FDR had for the Japs.

The implication that we should use guns to kill "tyrants" is what aged bad. I didn't state that Paul is a tyrant.

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

In any case, who decides when it's tyranny?

If American history has taught me anything, "the winner."

 

[stets]

Between this and the London fire, I'll bet CNN is pissed they can't cover their precious Russia conspiracy all day.

Bill Cosby is probably pissed, too. Cosby IRL raped 60 women to get back on TV, and he keeps getting bumped because of Trump/Russia, failed Congressional assassination attempts, and high rise building fires.

 

[Witner04]

When will the media say it? Radical socialist terrorism!

"But he was a good socialist, and an upstanding man of the collective! He didn't try to murder anyone, he just wanted to distribute bullets for everybody!"

 

[Pikimon]

I think a more important questions is where was @Techpriest (ask me about my hat) while this shooting was happening...

Me thinks Techy got triggered over circumcision and decided to take matters into his own hands, but as usual failed by firing 50 rounds and only managing to hit 3 people.

 

[Cuck Norris]

I don't see why everyone is so mad at him tbh, Republicans even told me the whole reason to own guns is to shoot at the government when you disagree with them

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]