Republican Congressman and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot early Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Virginia while practicing for the Congressional baseball game at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park. Scalise was shot in the hip and is reportedly in stable condition. His staffers and two Capitol Police officers were also shot. At least five people were hit.
“He was dragging his body from second base to the infield to get away fro the shooter,” Rep. Mo Brooks, who was at the scene and applied a tourniquet to Scalise, described to CNN. “My adrenaline is raging. It’s never easy when everyone around you is getting shot.”
“A pistol against a rifle is not a fair fight,” Brooks continued, describing “ten to twenty rounds” coming from the assailant through a fence before the security detail engaged.
“Once they started engaging, they exhibited great, great courage,” Brooks said, adding that it “seemed to take forever for officials to know we were under attack.”
Rep Ron DeSantis says a man matching the shooter’s description asked if it was Republicans or Democrats out there, before the shooting started.
Only Steve Scalise as Majority Whip had a Capitol Police detail, so there were only two Capital Police Officers with handguns against the shooter with a Kalashnikov-type rifle and handgun.
This is what is to be expected in a K-shift. The early phases will be those with atrophied amygdalae that cannot tolerate reasonable amygdala stresses blowing up and acting rashly. The later phase will come when the atrophied amygdalae create stresses that even those with well developed amygdalae cannot continue to tolerate, and then everyone is forced to act rashly.
What this will do is K-ify congress, a place that normally would not be exposed to K-ifying stimuli. Expect Republicans who feel this hit home become less open to the left, and more in-grouped with the right.
Spread r/K Theory to friends and family, because we need our side in-grouped for the coming storm
