"They never expected to find themselves in the midst of a shooting tragedy like they did this morning", Hollingsworth said in a Wednesday afternoon conference call with several media outlets.
Although it has only been hours since the attack, some are discussing whether this event should bring about a debate over gun control.
The shooter was identified as James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old home inspector from IL who had several minor run-ins with the law in recent years and belonged to a Facebook group called "Terminate the Republican Party". He had worked as a home inspector.
Hodgkinson was said to belong to multiple anti-Republican political groups and was distressed over the election of President Donald Trump last fall.
"The expressed hatred, the vitriol - often expressed behind the safety of a keyboard - and the inability to listen to and respect someone with a different point of view has become the new normal", he said.
The former congresswoman from Arizona, who was a Republican but now describes herself as a moderate Democrat, underwent a long and intensive rehabilitation after a bullet went through her brain. "Unfortunately, it's a unsafe country we live in but there are things we can do to try and make it a safer place". It's got to stop. Members of Congress credited the Capitol police officers with shooting the gunman, though authorities did not immediately confirm who shot him. "Steve Scalise is a friend, colleague and fighter for the people of Louisiana".
"America is praying for all the victims of this bad shooting", Trump said from the Diplomatic Room in the White House.
The Illinois man called the president a mean, disgusting man who should go to prison for treason.
"An attack on one of us in an attack on us all", she said, echoing Ryan's words. Members on both sides of the chamber listened intently to the comments by both House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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Before gunman Mr. Hodgkinson opened fire on a team of Republicans practicing for Thursday's scheduled congressional baseball game in Alexandria, Va., a man who fit his description asked two congressmen leaving the scene about the label of the players - Republican or Democrat?
Still wearing his red Republicans jersey and baseball garb, he learned for the first time that the Congressional baseball game would go on.
Senator Paul answered, "I think it's a little quick, people were shooting at me today to try to, I guess for people to politicize this". To those in the line of fire, it seemed an eternity before city police arrived, but in reality it took just three minutes.
Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a statement saying the suspect apparently had volunteered on his presidential campaign.
"Members get threats on a regular basis and have trouble determining which are real", House Democratic whip Steny Hoyer told reporters. "And let me be as clear as I can be: violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society". One guy's got a rifle, and you've got a pistol.
Noah Nathan, a bystander present at the scene, recorded the terrifying Eugene Simpson Stadium Park shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, when he heard the gunshots.
He was watching practice, LaVor said, when "I happened to look over, I saw the gunman, white male, behind a chain-link fence, behind third base". He gave that information to the Capitol Police as part of their investigation. Once they were able, Sen. "Then it would go through a risk assessment, and if it was determined that (the member) needed more security, then they would do it".
Brooks estimated 50 to 100 shots were fired.
3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, was shot in the hip and was receiving care at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, his office said.Scalise was out of surgery and "doing well", according to an ABC News affiliate. She survived, but six people were killed.
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