Most media now reporting the shooter cased the park quite a bit.

[Chasstev365]

So again, I ask, why would he ask which party played at the field before he shot?

That is a false narrative the GOP is trying to spread. DON'T BELIEVE IT!

[Squinch]

1. That was my first thought too.

So, either uninvolved bystanders are to be believed and he actually was after Republicans, which seems the likely explanation,

OR he happened upon the group, didn't know who they were and had to ask, which is what the Republican eyewitnesses are saying, though it doesn't even support their own narrative.

[jmg257]

2. Does it matter? He targeted the players on the field, after scoping out the field for days

He seemed to have known who he was blasting.

[Chasstev365]

4. Ah yes; it sure as hell matters

The GOP will scream it over and over.

Instead of how awful that someone would shoot members of Congress, it will be: Look at what some liberal did to us.

[jmg257]

5. Yes i am sure the distinction, considering the shooter and the victims, would be drastic.

[LanternWaste]

8. That will be their branding of the event regardless of whether he profiled the park or not.

"Look at what some liberal did to us..."

That will be their branding of the event regardless of whether he profiled the park or not. So no, it really does hold no weight at all...

[Fresh_Start]

3. We don't know what he would have done if it was democrats instead of GOP

For all anyone of us know, he would have tried to shoot twice as many democrats.

[spooky3]

6. Has anyone seen an explanation of why he came to the DC

metro area from Illinois? I keep reading that he was from IL but no one seems to have addressed or even raised the question of what he was doing in VA.

[spooky3]

7. Wow, an answer already! See link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141799599