Steve Scalise knew he was shot instantly. He felt something as he was trying to turn away from the shooter. “My legs gave out, and I fell down.”
He knew he had to keep moving, or risk another bullet. “You didn’t know how long it was going to last, or what was going to happen next, or, you know, if you were going to get hit again.”
And so one of the most important politicians in America started crawling, using his arms to pull himself toward the outfield from second base. He started praying. He started moving less and less.
After he’d reached shallow grass in right field, his arms gave out.
It felt like forever. People who had made it off the field were calling out to him.
But he stayed out there, alone, because no one could reach him.
Relative to the extreme level of hate they tend to use as their daily rhetoric, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened more often.
I honestly believe that taking the weak minded and subjecting them to the constant level of heighten harpy like “racist, sexist, homophobic” chant caused this.
At some point I think interviewing this guy in depth might be interesting.
That smells like a scapegoat to me.
The guy might have known he wouldn’t get away, that he did it anyway doesn’t mean he was suicidal it simply means he wanted the voiced Dianne Feinstien put in his head to go away.
He had some hate and planned to vent it, I think it needs to be acknowledged that he was one of theirs.
Never any “Blood on their hands” cries after that… Didn’t stop or temper Kimmel or Stephen Colbert…
I guess enough time has passed, what if the shooter had killed a number of congressmen and senators? It wouldn’t take a few senators to be replaced by Dem govs to tilt the Senate- imagine the outcry then?
Bernie Sanders supporters are more likely to be mass shooters than NRA members. Let that sink in.