Sorry, I guess too much coffee, internet access, and this large chip I seem to have on my shoulder don’t mix well. I’ll take a break from my keyboard for a while, and I sincerely apologize to anyone I might have offended with my obvious threadshit.
You don’t need the “someone said”. His facebook page is still up. It is clearly his - since he is reported to own a home-inspection business and the facebook page lists that business.
News agencies are already all over the alleged shooter’s history. His publicly-visible Facebook status updates have been mined, and there is a lot of casually-damning material present, including some strongly-worded statements about “Trump & Co.” Trial in the court of public opinion is fairly-well guaranteed.
Not posting details; Don’t wish to add to the pile-upon, should the accusation be unfounded.
New York Times is reporting that alleged shooter is identified. And dead.
Belleville. Huh. Scott Air Force Base’s stomping grounds. As nice as the rest of the East St. Louis area, I guess.
As the the Court of Public Opinion, apparently that’s the only place we’ll ever hear a verdict. Since he died and all.
Probably the same reason any workplace might have a team of some sort - camaraderie, socializing away from the office, blowing off stress, fun thing to do with coworkers… Take your pick.
It happens. That’s one of the reasons why it was felt we had to moderate these types of threads closely, they tend to be emotionally charged and prone to derailment. I appreciate your understanding and I’ll assume the post above was made before you saw my post.
Yes the president in his address confirmed the shooter was dead.
Some of the Facebook groups that he belongs to:
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans
Rachel Maddow For President 2020 The Democrats
Join The Resistance Worldwide!!
Donald Trump is not my President
Terminate The Republican Party
Boycott The Republican Party
Expose Republican Fraud
Hm. I think his political views are pretty clear from that selection.
Your assumption is correct and, again, I apologize.
Judging from those hoofbeats, your conclusion would definitely be the “horse” answer.
The “zebra” answer is that he’s an opposite-wing nutjob following those groups to troll them, but that is very zebra. Not utterly impossible, just would be very surprising if it happened. So I’m not going to draw any conclusions until there’s some evidence in the suspect’s own words or in reliable testimony from others who knew him.
Pretty obvious that he didn’t like Republicans.
Is he in any groups that indicates who he supports?
In the days to come it will be interesting to see what his mental health history is. On the surface so far he just looks like a regular guy who is a small business owner who happens to be very passionate about his politics. I suspect other issues may come to light.
At this point it appears there are two things that meant this wasn’t even worse than it was. The heroic actions of the 2 Capital Hill Police and the fact that the shooter was a horrible shot. It’s basically a miracle that no one was killed at the short range for a rifle that he was firing from.
Ryan is saying its a fluke capitol police were there.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have a secret service detail???
Does Secret Service only apply to the Executive branch? If so…I never knew that.
I linked to his facebook page above. Take a look at the Groups in the “About” section. (Be quick, Facebook likes to take down these pages fast).
Washington Post has a guy talking about campaigning for Sanders alongside him.
Still up, and getting flooded. Should this be the wrong person, there’s going to be a mess. Hell, there’s a mess already. I’ve already seen several “Communicating Terroristic Threats” violations with just a quick peruse.
Security for Congress is the responsiblity the Capital Police - at least whilst in the general vicinity of DC. Only two officers present, because that was the level of percieved need and threat.
According to Fox News:
There’s a picture showing an Illinois driver’s license.
See, my personal experience with these kinds of things is “Equus.” Because I follow groups from all over the political spectrum. Some to watch and be aware of, some because I agree, some because, well, I do enjoy a bit of trolling now and again, and some just ‘Because.’
Being aware of my own predilictions, I’m aware that others can have non-obvious motivations.
It’s pretty clear from the picture in the driver’s license that the facebook page linked to above is from the same person.