“WE ARE united in our shock, we are united in our anguish,” proclaimed Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, after a gunman fired on a group of Republican congressmen and their staff at a baseball practice in northern Virginia on June 14th. But that was not quite true even as Steve Scalise, a congressman from Louisiana who was shot in the hip, was being rushed into the operating theatre.
The shooting, which injured four people in all, was carried out by a 66-year-old man from Illinois called James Hodgkinson, who lived in a nearby van, hated Donald Trump and was shot dead by police. The attack, though distressing, was not unusual. Later in the day a 38-year-old man shot dead three people, then himself, at a UPS delivery centre in San Francisco. Reports suggest he had recently complained to the company about doing too much overtime.
In both Virginia and California it is possible to buy firearms without...Continue reading
Source: United States http://ift.tt/2t5jPtr
EmoticonEmoticon