Candidate for Sessions's Senate seat uses Scalise shooting in TV ad

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Source: Washington Post

Candidate for Sessionss Senate seat uses Scalise shooting in TV ad
By David Weigel July 24 at 1:08 PM

A new ad from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) invokes the June shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) to promote Brookss support for gun rights the second time the shooting has appeared in a commercial this year.

The Second Amendment spot, released in support of Brookss U.S. Senate campaign Monday, begins with audio of gunshots and people scrambling for cover. Theres no image, just white text on a black screen: June 14: A Bernie Sanders supporter fires on Republican Congressmen. Mo Brooks gives his belt as a tourniquet to help the wounded. Whats the liberal media immediately ask?

Theres a cut to a video interview with Brooks, where an unnamed reporter asks whether the shooting has changed his thinking on guns, and over swelling string music Brooks explains that the Second Amendment was written to help ensure that we always have a republic.

Brooks is challenging Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in the Aug. 15 primary. Strange holds the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became U.S. attorney general. Brett Horton, Scalises chief of staff, said on Twitter that audio of the shooting made his stomach turn, while Chris Bond, Scalises spokesman, suggested that the use of the footage was ill-advised.
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David Weigel is a national political correspondent covering Congress and grassroots political movements. He's the author of "The Show That Never Ends," a history of progressive rock music.
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Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

More details on that GOP Senate race ad that features the Scalise shooting. Scalise staff not happy.

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The day of the shooting, while waiting at the hospital, I avoided the news/audio/video as much as possible. This makes my stomach turn.

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Full disclosure: I live in Alexandria just a mile from where the shooting happened. I am at the library right now. On several occasions this spring, I crossed paths with the shooter. He came to the library often to use the wifi here. He never gave off any weird vibes.

I was at home on the day of the shooting. All hell broke loose that morning. Police sirens were sounding all over the city. The city's SWAT vehicle came past my house. The Alexandria Police Department responded quickly. Those were my tax dollars at work.

The neighborhood where the shooting occurred went heavily for HRC.

Here's what J. Christian Adams of the Voter Suppression Commission has to say about the neighborhood:

Ignoring the Signs in Alexandria: Baseball, Bullets, and Bloodshed
http://www.theacru.org/ignoring-the-signs-in-alexandria-baseball-bullets-and-bloodshed/

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Del Ray prides itself on being a diverse and progressive neighborhood. In 2016, Hillary got 4,549 votes in Del Ray and Trump just 883.
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[murielm99]

1. Tasteless.

[VermontKevin]

2. Not even poor taste. Just completely tasteless.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Why would he need to do a 2A-embracing commercial

and spout bullshit about "liberal media" when he is running in a primary against another Republican in a red state, where 2A-humping Republicans run all 3 branches of government?

[angrychair]

4. Guns

Little known fact: it's one of only two actual words in the Constitution. It's just a long sheet of paper with two words on it:

-Guns

-Jesus

(In the that actual order because you might have to shoot Jesus if he try's to take your guns away)

That's it. Guns and Jesus.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. But they are preaching to their own choir.

This is not a "general" election for that seat where he would be running against a Democrat and would have to "remind" the constituency about the "evils" of the "libbbbrrruuullls". No one in power at the moment will "take away their guns" because they have taken over all the branches of the federal government (and already had the state government).

[angrychair]

6. Facts don't matter

The previous administration didn't take away their guns either in fact it expanded their ability to carry on federal land.
What it comes down to is a straw man ghost story used to scare up votes from idiots.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. That about sums it up. nt

[SergeStorms]

9. For the same reason....

Trump keeps having his "rallies" wherever he did well in the Presidential election; propaganda for the dummies who like him, so they'll CONTINUE to like him. Gun nuts want constant propaganda about their "duty" to carry concealed weapons. Gun shots get these guys hard, and they won't forget who plays the most gun shots in their campaign ads.

[Kleveland]

7. Dispicable.....

Not much out there that goes lower than this snail slime, who like many of his ilk uses the tragedy or suffering of others for their own political ends.

[Vinca]

10. A clip of the Scalise shooting does more to promote gun control than gun rights.