Courtesy of Salon:The FBI has assessed that the deceased shooter in Alexandria attack acted alone and there is no nexus to terrorism https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO http://pic.twitter.com/sPbxTsGppq— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 21, 2017
The FBI announced on Wednesday that James T. Hodgkinson — the gunman who shot Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., during a Congressional baseball practice — acted alone.
“We also assessed that there was no nexus to terrorism,” Andrew Vale, assistant director of the FBI in Washington said.
Hodgkinson, 66, was known to have an anger management problem as well and his wife has cooperated with the investigation.
Hodgkinson was from Illinois and opened fire on Republican members of Congress last week and was shot and killed by police as they responded to the incident. The investigation is still ongoing and CNN reported that authorities found a list created by Hodgkinson with names of six members of Congress, though their names and parties were not released. Scalise who is the House Majority Whip was the only member of Congress injured during the attack.
In other words this guy was not part of some secret Leftist terrorist cell that was targeting Donald Trump or the Republicans, as has some on the Right have been suggesting.
Look I am not saying that there are not nutjobs on the Left, or even that some of the partisan talk out there did not play a part in getting this guy all worked up enough to open fire.
However I would like to mention that there are really VERY few acts of actual violence coming from the progressive community, and no I don't consider those Antifa assholes to be part of the progressive community.
As a rule those of us on the progressive side of the aisle tend to make our statements through pithy, correctly spelled protest signs, boycotts against Right Wing misogynists, and of course our votes.
ANY violence directed at even the worst example of a Republican politician, or GOP mouthpiece, is to be rejected out of hand.
Yes of course I would like to slap the orange off of Donald Trump, I am after all only human.
But I would never actually do it, nor do I, in any way, advocate such behavior.
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