In a rampage lasting 10 dreadful minutes, a gunman targeted Republican legislators as they held an early-morning practise in a picturesque park
America has been made to endure this sorenes before when a mass shooting desecrates its most cherished spaces: a schoolroom in Newtown; a cinema in Aurora; a church in Charleston.
This time, with the sunrise, a baseball park in Virginia became, in the words of Senator Rand Paul, a killing field.
What politicians who trade their suits and ties for baseball uniforms absence in fitness, they make up for in earnest ebullience. Such is the faithfulnes of Steve Scalise, the number three House Republican, and his colleagues that they regularly start practise at 6.15 or 6.30 am at the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, across the Potomac river from Washington DC.
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