Brooks: Many Republicans Are Likely Retiring Due To Fear Of Assassination

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By Katherine Riga | April 28, 2018 5:31 pm

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) floated the idea Friday that Republicans are retiring from Congress in record numbers due to their fear of being assassinated, according to a Friday morning Roll Call report.

While speaking on the Dale Jackson Show, Brooks mentioned the shooting at the congressional Republican baseball practice last year, which left Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) badly wounded.

“You have to wonder with that kind of disproportionate retirement number whether what happened in June played a factor,” he reportedly said. “There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations.”

Brooks conceded that most of the retiring Republicans would likely not attribute their decision to fear for their lives, but added that the number of those leaving, especially those who play on the team, is “out of whack.”

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Hey Brooks your a fucking traitor to this country and you are so paranoid, that your right wing NRA got money from Russia, that is causing thousands to be killed, and you think it's from the left..............you are fucking delusional..................what a pin head

Oh yeah, I forgot you haven't passed any legislation, and what you did vote on was putting unqualified people in a criminal organization cabinet, and courts, and run around spreading your right wing delusional basic talking points of hate and fear, remember your party has more terrorists...................

[Trust Buster]

1. From the people that cling to their guns. Just can't make this kind of stupid up.

[Girard442]

2. Yeah, it's a helluva thing, going to work every day wondering if a deranged shooter will show up.

If only there were people who had the power to make rules and regulations to prevent that sort of thing.

[Zoonart]

8. THIS!

Bizarro Congress.

[Blue_Adept]

3. Well, they did make talk of Second Amendment Solutions a prime talking point the last few years

Did they think nobody would take them up on it?

[KG]

4. i abhor gun violence, but i get a chuckle from the thought of repooks looking over their collective

shoulders....

[Croney]

5. Afraid of being assassinated? The solution is so easy!

You want to arm school teachers, who are of course not as smart as you, so you should strut around toting a gun at all times, and just fire at will into crowds if you see a suspicious person. You'll be the good guy with a gun. What could go wrong?

[Vinca]

6. Then maybe they should consider enacting a little gun control before they leave.

[treestar]

7. Wait, aren't they totally safe because they have guns?

They have their Second Amendment right to defend themselves!

And don't they call other people "pussies" and the like for backing down from any fight? Any physical fight? I don't guess they would go to war to "defend their country" ( that is, "fight for the military industrial complex&quot if they are afraid of danger like this?

[greymattermom]

9. If the Russians that pay them are disappointed

guns won't help. They'll have to avoid doorknobs.

[rickford66]

10. Was Gabby Giffords chopped liver ?

Did mobs of Democrats resign in fear of assassination ?