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Details are still scarce about the shooting this morning at a GOP congressional baseball game practice. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and several others – including two Capitol Police officers – were shot. But scarcity of details hasn’t stopped some social media pundits from immediately pouncing on the situation for precious political points.
Yes, folks, the old adage never to waste a good crisis still holds true, and the gun-control hot takes – some mixed with a dash of anti-GOP schadenfreude – started before the proverbial smoke had even cleared, even before the identity of the apprehended shooter was made public.
See? Ain't gonna be no gun control. https://t.co/qAO6eK062m
— April (@ReignOfApril) June 14, 2017
So does @realDonaldTrump still think there is no need for gun control? https://t.co/c9XC3q3qk1
— Awesome ends with ME (@AwkwardMegs) June 14, 2017
I wonder if after today's shooting the GOP will be more in favor of gun control?
— JoCo?? (@Okie_Resister) June 14, 2017
THIS IS WHY GUN CONTROL POLICIES MATTER.
Shots fired in Alexandria where republicans were practicing for a charity baseball game.
— PrestonMitchum (@PrestonMitchum) June 14, 2017
Republicans have no desire to have gun control laws and I'm sure this targeting won't change their mindset either. They'll still be arrogant
— Brian Witherspoon (@Spoony29) June 14, 2017
Can we have the gun control debate NOW? #Alexandria #VirginiaPark
— Logan Levkoff, Ph.D. (@LoganLevkoff) June 14, 2017
Others were less inclined to immediately politicize this tragedy.
No hot takes, I beg you. Wait.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 14, 2017
No hot takes please; just say a prayer for Scalise and others who were shot
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) June 14, 2017
Maybe let the gun cool to room temperature before the hot takes?
— Bob McGovern (@BobMcGovernJr) June 14, 2017
Additionally, in a pair of tweets, David Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic, grossly mischaracterized firearms laws in Virginia, where the shooting took place.
In view of reports of many, many shots, also worth noting
No restrictions on large-capacity magazines https://t.co/YLG1mRGnMO
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 14, 2017
Virginia:
No background checks
No licensing
No registration
No permit req’d for concealed carry of long guns
Open carry long guns & handguns
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 14, 2017
We will have more addressing this shortly.
Conservative Review will have more details about this story as they develop.
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