GOP senator: Obama reached out after shooting

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Former President Barack Obama reached out across the aisle to Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) after the shooting at the GOP congressional baseball practice, the senator said Wednesday.

Flake said Obama sent his "best wishes and prayers" for the victims, according to Politico. Flake was one of the GOP members practicing in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire, injuring five, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).

"He went through this a couple of times," Flake told reporters.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/337837-flake-obama-reached-out-to-me-after-shooting

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Obama again shows his greatness.

[sandensea]

1. Many GOP congresscritters, on the other hand, spent all of 2013 winking at Sandy Hook truthers.

As did Cheeto once or twice, as I recall.

[ailsagirl]

2. Why am I not surprised??

Love that man, plain and simple

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Pure class!

[Stuart G]

4. Yes.!!!

[Beacool]

5. That's because Obama is humane and has class.

Everything that Trump lacks.

[ailsagirl]

6. That's for damn sure

[SCVDem]

7. Can we elect him in 2020?

He will have had four years off.

Can we? I really miss him and his lack of idiotic superlatives!

He's the best, the greatest, the smartest and without him I am Sad. So sad.

[Dolly123Jimmy]

8. No but we can elect

Mrs. Obama !!!

[SCVDem]

10. We can wish....

But that ain't happening.

Still sad.

[calimary]

12. Welcome to DU, Dolly123Jimmy!

Yeah, it'd be neat. Really neat! She's said repeatedly that she's not interested.

Cool thought, though!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. K&R nt

[athena]

11. Did any of them reach out to Gabby Giffords in 2011?

Did any one of them apologize for their pro-gun stance?

No, they did the opposite:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/what-happened-the-last-time-a-congress-member-was-shot-215263

"On Sunday, the day after Giffords was shot, it was already established that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, had carried only one gun. The fact that he had fired 33 rounds provided the basis for what would come next. 'The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly,' said Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). 'These high-capacity clips simply should not be on the market.'"

(snip)

"The response in the legislature in Giffords's home state was decidedly different. On the Monday after the shooting, a state senator pushed forward an already introduced bill to allow community college faculty members to carry concealed weapons on campus. To the senator, and his Republican colleagues, the logic behind the proposed law was as unassailable as Lautenberg's effort to legislate for a smaller clip. Loughner's community college professor had already told reporters that he'd been reluctant to face the whiteboard while Loughner was in his class, fearing that his student might shoot him while his back was turned."

(snip)

"That split between what members of both parties thought were reasonable reactions to Giffords's shooting extended to the floor of the House. On the Wednesday afterwards, as newly-elected Tea Party colleagues lined up to sign a condolences book that would soon be delivered to Giffords, they also explained why new gun-related legislation wasn't necessary at all. By then, reporters had discovered that Loughner had twice been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. That revelation broadened the conversation to include greater funding for mental health, another concept that was rejected by House Republicans. 'In California, we had a special income tax for mental health funding,' Representative John Campbell told a reporter from Slate. 'It's since been rescinded, since we ran out of money!'"

[jazzcat23]

13. Obama is a man of class and intelligence,

I really, really miss that man! And the family. Did you all know that Obama's presidency was the only one in history without scandals? I just love that! No matter what they try to do to take away his legacy, it's too late and already in history books! With the possible exception of the south, they like to re-write history, and have been doing that for years already.

[Cha]

14. Mahalo President Obama for once again doing the

the best thing

Mahalo, JE

[LiberalBrooke]

15. Of course he did.

Obama has class and compassion.

[Fatemah2774]

16. That is the difference

Between Class and classless.

[Paladin]

17. Such grace and class---once again wasted on the republicans. (nt)

[Gothmog]

18. Yeah for President Obama

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Naturally. It's who he is.