GOP rep. received threatening email with subject line 'One down, 216 to go...'

[mjr]

After the shooting of a lawmaker and a couple of others at a practice for a charity baseball (??) game (by a 66 year old white dude), a Republican Congressperson received an email with the above subject line...

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/33...16-to-go-after

Yikes!

Have we really gotten to this point politically? I understand being upset that "the other team" won, but is this really how divided we are? Is this what "Resist" is really about? Is this really what "the left" is about? I'd certainly hope not.

Though the guy was following some looney tunes groups on FaceBook...so that may have had something to do with it.

I mean, I know there are several of you on here who despise Trump (and dislike Republicans in general), but I don't think any of you would EVER do what this guy did.

I do have to commend the Democrat lawmakers for showing solidarity with the Republicans who were shot, and offering up prayers and such. They haven't turned it extremely political -- let's see how long that lasts...

More on the story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html#comments

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-practice.html

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...shooter-729035

https://news.grabien.com/story-left-...ng-rep-scalise

[victory sabre]

We've entered sick times.

[s_stabeler]

I do have to commend the Democrat lawmakers for showing solidarity with the Republicans who were shot, and offering up prayers and such. They haven't turned it extremely political -- let's see how long that lasts...

lawmakers haven't- other than the probably-inevitable hints that some think there should be tighter gun laws- but judging by the comments on the article, some of their supporters- it looked like mostly republican supporters to me, but I couldn't read far due to the various BS (for example, blaming the democrats as a whole, calling for psychiatric evaluation of Democrat supporters, at least one saying Bernie actually called for stuff like this... this was the comments on the daily mail article, but it's still pretty sad to see (that some people tar a whole group by the acts of an extremist))

[mjr]

We've been there for a few years now.

[TheHuckster]

Politicians and nation leaders have been getting death threats since the dawn of civilization. This really is nothing new.

And, I'll point out the fact that at least on my news feed, besides one or two, the reaction to the shooting in Virginia have been mostly well-wishing and love-filled, even from the most opposed to Trump and the GOP.

Every high-profile politician has gotten some credible death threat or even assassination attempt in their career. Even beyond the well-known instances such as the Reagan shooting, JFK, and the Anthrax attacks, I would almost guarantee you that secret service had to perform actions to shield Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump from an attack that didn't get news coverage. It's part of the job.

[mjr]

And, I'll point out the fact that at least on my news feed, besides one or two, the reaction to the shooting in Virginia have been mostly well-wishing and love-filled, even from the most opposed to Trump and the GOP.

True, but again I will point to this:

https://news.grabien.com/story-left-...ng-rep-scalise

Granted, one could consider that an outlier, but still...

[TheHuckster]

True, but again I will point to this:

https://news.grabien.com/story-left-...ng-rep-scalise

Granted, one could consider that an outlier, but still...

Of course it's an outlier. I'm sure if Twitter had existed back in the day you'd see all kinds of assholes celebrating Reagan's shooting, or JFK's assassination, among others.

It's why I take a lot of media shit like this with a grain of salt. Remember, what the media is telling you is not what's happening in the world, but rather what it wants to expose is happening in the world. It's exactly why a lot of things seem to happen in odd uptrends. Airlines haven't just magically started to treat passengers like shit all of a sudden, for instance. It's just the topic du jour until the next media distraction comes up.

[mjr]

but it's still pretty sad to see (that some people tar a whole group by the acts of an extremist))

Agreed, but how many times do we see/hear about a shooting, and it's almost automatically "Must be some crazy Republican, they're all just a bunch of gun nuts, you know!"

[s_stabeler]

I generally don't see it, actually. You aren't wrong that it isn't limited to Republicans, but sometimes it certainly seems like the extremist Republicans a) seem to dominate the Republican party and b) seem somewhat louder.

That, and considering there IS somewhat of a polarization in what people read, I can't help but wonder how many of the more...extreme... comments are actually trolls deliberately saying inflammatory things.

[Greenday]

The only thing shocking about the Scalise story is that it took this long for people to start shooting at politicians.

Considering how Congress has been working against the people they are supposed to be working for, it was only a matter of time before people stopped putting up with a rigged system.

I don't wish violence on anyone, but again, not shocking news by any means.