The Goat Pen

I am going to defer to anyone on this site with actual military experience. I have never served. I don't own a gun. I have fired rifles and shotguns at ranges but not since I was in Boy Scouts. That said, I have to say I am impressed (amazed) with those two Capital police officers. Consider:

• Dickhead shows up with an M-4 Carbine semi-automatic rifle
• He takes a defensive position hiding behind the 3rd base dugout
• The dugout is made up of concrete and cinderblocks
• He fires, hits our majority whip (who as of this posting I still believe is in critical condition)
• Both officers go for their 9-millimeter pistols
• They draw dickhead's fire ONLY to them (he has a rifle, they have hand guns)
• The two sides exchange fire from the corner of the first base dugout to the 3rd base dugout
• this continues unabated for 4 minutes while "reinforcements" have yet to arrive
• and the whole time, Dickhead is NOT killing my Senator Jeff Flake

4 fucking minutes?!?! This is like Hollywood in its unreality. The only reason why Flake, Rand Paul, and all the other "defenseless" congressmen aren't dead (including another congressman's two sons!), was because the Majority Whip is entitled to personal security, two Capital Police officers. Both of them were shot I might add. And I'm sorry, a fire fight at a range of 120 feet across the width of a baseball diamond where your side has two hand guns and their side has semi-automatic rifle, and only the shooter is dead, I think those two cops should each be given the Congressional Medal of Honor (if that is possible.)

Those two congressional police officers are truly studs. It is EXTREMELY difficult to hit a target at that distance with pistols, much less in the stress of a real firefight and not on the range, much less when you yourself are wounded.

They do indeed deserve a congressional Medal of Honor level award.

Can you imagine if a Trump supporter had opened fire on a group of Democrat congressmen and almost killed the minority whip?

O the hell that would have broken loose...

Didn't see that false equivalency coming.

What's false about it? A deranged liberal taking target practice on Republican congressmen is already "old news" in one week. If it were the other way around, CNN would have had to start a new CNN-TMM (CNN-Trump Mass Murderer) channel in order to handle all the 24/7 keening.

BTW, the Dem's just went 0-4 in congressional special elections since Trump's election. In their defense, a Republican beating a Democrat in Georgia should hardly be newsworthy, but Handel only won by 3. That's a pretty impressive showing for the Dem's in a usually red district.

I'm just glad the tsunami of local campaign commercials is over now.

"That's a pretty impressive showing for the Dem's in a usually red district."

Esp. considering that the Dem candidate is a 30 year old neophyte who didn't even live in the district...

Correct. He also had zero accomplishments on his short resume, and was almost totally bankrolled by Californians. Yet he came within 4 points of winning. That should take some of the fizz out of the GOP's champaign this morning.

Professor Tiger wrote:What's false about it?

A Bernie supporter equates to a Cruz supporter, not a Trumptard. Fail.

A deranged liberal taking target practice on Republican congressmen is already "old news" in one week.

Hello. Week-old news is by definition is "old news". Every single thing to know about the shooter is known. Plus, he's still dead.

If it were the other way around, CNN would have had to start a new CNN-TMM (CNN-Trump Mass Murderer) channel in order to handle all the 24/7 keening.

Your manic overstatements always get old.

BTW, the Dem's just went 0-4 in congressional special elections since Trump's election. In their defense, a Republican beating a Democrat in Georgia should hardly be newsworthy, but Handel only won by 3. That's a pretty impressive showing for the Dem's in a usually red district.

I'm just glad the tsunami of local campaign commercials is over now.

Now lets go build that big beautiful wall..

Yeah, I'm bored. Sitting here at the beach smack in the middle of TS Cindy.

I like being down at the beach during tropical storms and hurricanes...

A Bernie supporter equates to a Cruz supporter, not a Trumptard. Fail.

Your subjective "equation" only makes sense to you.

Week-old news is by definition is "old news".

The Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy has been going on for months without a single shred supporting evidence. Yet that "old news" still has been getting 24/7 airtime on the MSM.

Stay safe down there.

or go for a swim

Now now... Fantasizing about the death of people who disagree with you is a liberal thing, not a conservative thing. Let's not stoop to that level...

LOL :::smh:::

Libs play laser tag; cons stockpile arsenals and drill with their militias.

"The Venezuela of the Midwest."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... olumn.html

I wish you would dissolve...

10ac wrote:"The Venezuela of the Midwest."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... olumn.html

The only question is which will go bankrupt first: Chicago or Illinois?

It's a shame; both are filled with mostly hard-working, conscientious and responsible people who would never dream of running their personal finances the way their elected leaders have run their city/state. But I think the voters there have been so accustomed to corruption and incompetence from their leaders for so long, they think it is normal, and just keep voting the crooks back into office no matter what they do.

SAD!

First you lose the title "Mighty" and now this. Sad..

Speaking of sad - really, REALLY sad - this is the moment that CNN called the GA 6 election in favor the the Republican:



Priceless.

I guess that's not editorializing.