Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax. CNN's Jessica Schneider reports. Rep. Veronica Escobar also joins CNN's Wolf Blitzer to discuss recent wave of violence against US lawmakers. #CNN #News
Democratic congressman’s staff attacked by man with baseball bat
Wait your first day on the job amd you’re hit in the head with a baseball bat? What are the odds?
50/50 it either happens or it doesn’t
BAN BASEBALL BATS !!!…👈😵
@Needmy Wokebear
Lets do assault weapons 1st. Then you can explain why you want to go after baseball bats.
Lmao woohoo!!! Let’s go Brandon
Wonder if he was able to run all the bases.
Don’t be surprised to see more of this as people get fed up go off the rails and lose it.
exactly…
I am pretty shocked it isn’t happening more often.
They wanted chaos and got it.
If “Hit-and-Run” Gerry would allow his staff to carry firearms to protect themselves this would not be an issue. In Virginia, anyone can openly carry a pistol and a pistol normally beats a bat if you’ll pardon the pun. And if the Fairfax CA had actually prosecuted the lunatic when he assaulted a cop he wouldn’t have been on the streets to attack these staffers. Elections have consequences.
Did he do a hit and run? I don’t get the reference
If they should be “punished” in this way because of who they work for then I can only imagine the “punishment” awaiting you because you work for the Devil. You have accepted the “Mark of the Beast” and your soul will burn forever.
First day on the job and already got a good @$$ lawsuit she better buy a lottery ticket ASAP🥺😱
Yes, because that should be their focus. Not that someone just attacked them with a bat.
Hey who said protests had to be peaceful?
Damn you beat me to it!
What protest, we are talking about a human being suffering from schizophrenia, someone who is about as ill as one can get when not on medication that may make him more normal to you and I, but absolutely miserable for him from the side effects. We need better laws and both parties to genuinely help those who cannot help themselves.
@BKM they can either take the medication or stay in a cell.
Congressional baseball shooting seemed to get less coverage than this story….
They didn’t have a “bat free zone” sign up… that’s why it happened 😂
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Y’all keep losing.
@Stranger In A Strange Land It would have kept that Right Wing Red Neck out that’s what it would have done.
@Dean Mason The guy looked Asian and not a right wing redneck.
What kind of security did this office have? Offices ARE supposed to be secure.
It’s kind of like the Border …wide open
It was a gun free zone apparently haha
I’d love to say this surprises me. I’d love to say I’m shocked, but folks we’re watching the other side breed this stuff in real time and we’re trying to shame them out of it. I think its time to change tactics.
Whose the other side?
You don’t want any problems keyboard commando 😂😂😂
I’d like to hear about why he didn’t have more powerful weapons. The argument has been mental health is the real issue to deal with and though that may be true, here we have a situation where someone was suffering a mental health deficiency and where often we would hear about a firearm and mental illness blamed for the carnage — we have only a baseball bat. So true, someone who wants to do damage will always find a way, but it seems possibly limiting their options protects innocent lives.
My question: who let the nuts out of insane Asylum, WHO, WHO, WHO ? ? ? Put them back in !
William Filgham, Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party! And guess who keeps voting down any ways to provide better care for the mentally ill…Republican Party!
It is a lifesaver that he had only a bad and not an automatic weapon.
Ran Paula employee was attacked and staged. With a knife multiple times ! He is in the Hospital now in very serious cons ! The guy could get any one to sell him a gun ! So he grabbed his knife and staged this public servant over and over
Again many times ! If this employee of Senetor Ran. Paul had had a gun ! He might have been able to shoot the assailant ! To protect him self ! But then now dem and Rhynoes will be complaining ! He shot a innocent guy ! All he had was a little oh knife ! That his their run All vision ! They are nothing but dem agendas !
@Celeste Rosales Likely he wasn’t able to get ahold of any gun in this particular case. So many other times he would have come in there firing in all directions. Everyone knows, but will not admitted it, if there ever is a way to ban guns, it will not affect what the criminals have access to. It might help in the case of some nut like the one with the baseball bat, but more than likely the hardened criminals are intelligent enough to know how to get guns illegally and know how to create guns, even if they build them in their own garage workshops.
One of the most dangerous general areas that someone could be in, is a gun free zone, like the theater in Aurora, Colorado years ago. The gunman was able to get in through a back door behind the screen and he jumped out and started shooting. If their had been even one concealed weapons expert who was an expert marxman, that one Patriot could have taken him out almost immediately.
I have never been a proponent of open carry because that might be just asking for something, But every time a concealed weapons law is passed where someone has to go through a training process and file a form after he is checked out mentally, crime goes down across-the-board, because the bad guys don’t know who is packing heat, and who is not.
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Ms Escobar,
I appreciated listening to your views. Well said and demanding of respect! Thank you! I was surprised by you. I did not know you!
We have to find a way to stop all violence. We also need to sell the GOP on MENTAL HEALTH and the win when we invest in building back mental health offices in the states. Right now the phrase is used to defer arguments on mass shooters, like a cheap shield. It should stand alone as a service to a segment of the population, maybe for one such as you, governors and government officials, as a necessary part of health care, as much as women’s health care, and dentistry. Wake up people!
And time to squeeze government officials until they talk back to those doing violent threats or soft on violent suggestions of others. ALL must be expected to condemn violent suggestions or acts, no matter what, or they are strongly sanctioned by their HR Dept, as in losing money or perks or losing something they depend on. Like we sanctioned Putin, we should sanction against those soft on violence, or seeming to condone Trump’s or others threats.
I say we get MEAN on any offering soft replies to violence spoken by candidates or government officials. Now!
Here Here! Thank you
Truly “Exceptional”
Family members who know that their family members have mental problems and leave them to roam on their own in public should be held accountable.
K L, sadly it’s more complicated than that. When our laws protect those who are mentally ill until they are a danger to themselves or others little can be done. Let’s hope this can change because family members are so frustrated when trying to reach out to no avail.
@BKM if families don’t take care of their members and leave it to society then usually society’s response will be far worse for the afflicted person. how can the government be so invasive as to know who has mental problems?
K L, if said mental person is a danger to themself or others there Family normally reaches out for support, just because it’s their relative or child doesn’t mean they know how to manage a mentally ill person. This has not a thing to do with being invasive, in order to diagnose a person they need to see professional’s in psychiatry as well as other fields for support, the governments involvement has more to do with disability, and hopefully laws to protect everyone who might become involved.
This is a bipartisan issue, we need to invest in mental healthcare. We need mental hospitals that will hold these people until they get stabilized on their medications. And they should consider laws for mental ill people, if they commit violent criminal acts after not taking their medication more than twice, then institutionalize them for a few years. When they get released if they slip again, institutionalize them longer, with progressive consequences. Basically, at one point they are medicated and choose not to continue taking their medication. If they can’t afford the medication then society needs to step up and help.
my same age cousin in scotland has had free universal health care all his life. We are 68. Britian started it broke from WWII in 1946. It only needs funded extra the first year. I looked up his salary about $52K back in the 80s being an electrician on Britains and our tax tables. The same. But he got that master certificate for electrician free in high school! bought his own home at age 26. Small and attached but still his.
its so wild to see that there was a violent incident on the news that wasnt gun related. if you get on national news with no gun, you gotta do something special like this guy
the desensitization is real
In most civilized countries everyone has healthcare insurance. Maybe an idea for the richest country in the world? Of course for that to become reality, you have to vote out the party of violence and insurrection.
The earlier Donald Trump goes into prison the quicker they will know nobody is above the law.
At least a gun wasn’t involved. Cause if that madman had one, the chances of the incident ending with zero victim would’ve been slim to none.