Scalise: Las Vegas Shooting ‘Fortified’ My Support For Second Amendment

Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks with the media on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Washington. The Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to o... Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks with the media on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Washington. The Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) MORE LESS
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said a shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 dead and hundreds injured, as well as his own shooting at a congressional baseball practice in June, has only “fortified” his position regarding the Second Amendment.

“Inevitably, questions about the Second Amendment are raised by what happened in Las Vegas,” Fox News’ Martha MacCallum asked Scalise. “Have you, your experience of your own, and what you saw in Las Vegas, has it changed how you feel about any of that?”

“I think it’s fortified it,” Scalise said. “Because first of all, you’ve got to recognize that when there’s a tragedy like this, the first thing we should be thinking about is praying for the people who were injured and doing whatever we can to help them, to help law enforcement. We shouldn’t first be thinking of promoting our political agenda.”

Scalise returned to Congress last week for the first time more than three months after he was shot in the hip at a Republican congressional baseball practice in June.

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  1. Hey - what says having your colon blown out better than more guns. The gas smells like freedom.

  2. Avatar for allie allie says:

    Scalise, you are a blooming idiot.

  3. “…and unrestricted access to high rises within close range of large outdoor crowds.”

  4. OK, his brain simply doesn’t work. Next?

  5. Avatar for jhand jhand says:

    Before he was shot, Scalise behaved like the colossal Republican dick that he always was. Neither the shooting nor our “thoughts and prayers” have turned him away from his dickish past. The scorpion still stings the frog.

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