Police: Bullet That Hit Cantor Campaign Office Window Was Randomly Fired In Air A Long Way Off

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond police say the bullet that hit a window of Republican Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor's office had been randomly fired skyward.

Amid reports of threats and vandalism against Democrats who voted Sunday for sweeping health care reforms, Cantor said at a Washington news conference Thursday that a bullet was fired into his Richmond office.

In a news release, Richmond police said that the bullet had been fired into the air early Tuesday. It hit the front window of a building that houses Cantor's campaign office as it fell to back earth at a sharp angle.


Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-health-care-threats-cantor,0,5342289.story

[tridim]

1. Cantor is a LIAR. End of story.

[sasquuatch55]

20. Cantors BS- As I read the article, I seriously began to doubt it was a bullet

nt

[Bitwit1234]

34. Go to CNN they are posting and publishing this like it was the

terror attack to end all terror attacks. Can you believe that. Here you have children threatened, gas line cuts, and outrageous threats and incitement by even republican congresspeople and they are making this their number one story. Cantor is the biggest POS in virginia right now. I can not stand that liar.

[Turborama]

52. Actually, on AC360 just now they did report it in a similar fashion to the AP story above

Surprisingly. It was almost as if they used the AP article in the OP as a script.

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[vduhr]

28. Actually, Eric Cantor didn't say that, it was the police that reported it.

The bullet was randomly fired into the air. When a bullet is fired into the air, it can go a good distance up and fall back down (like a little rocket). If fired at a slight angle, it can go up and then fall down a distance, even miles from where it was fired. I lived in a small town many years ago, and someone fired a gun (4th of July) a block from my house. The bullet came down amongst a crowd of people watching fireworks 3 miles away and hit a little girl in the head. Fortunately, she was slightly injured because at that point a bullet loses it's velocity, as did the bullet in Cantor's office.

[vduhr]

29. P.S. Not that Cantor wasn't lying...

He must have known, at least at the beginning of the investigation, that the bullet was found only a few feet from his front window (apparently didn't even go through the blinds), so it was not "fired at his office", as he claimed it was.

[rfranklin]

64. Okay, I confess. I shot at Cantor's window...

from New Jersey. I calculated the trajectory and pointed my 9mm toward the sky at just the right angle.

I know it was wrong but it was his fault for being so aggravating.

There, I said it!

[no limit]

2. If only everyone in that campaign office was armed! This would have never happened

[wryter2000]

10. LOL

Post of the day. :rofl:

[defendandprotect]

46. Rise of the right . . . rise of the gun . . .not coincidental---!!

[wordpix]

72. if only VA would get rid of those few gun control laws it has, this wouldn't have happened.

:crazy: :sarcasm: somehow

[liberalmuse]

3. The damage is done.

Look for the follow up to this story to be plastered...nowhere. The media will continue to spin the original fable, as usual. Republicans don't know shit about governing, compassion or humanity, but they DO know how to LIE.

[swimboy]

53. I'm in Richmond. Thank You!

Thank God, Bobby Scott is my representative.

[montanacowboy]

4. OMG!!!!!!!!!

bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[LiberalLoner]

5. But even Tweety is saying his window was shot out (Cantor's)

So no one in the media, not even on MSNBC, is going to tell the truth on this I'm afraid. :(

[vduhr]

30. Hopefully Rachel Maddow will.

[pattmarty]

60. Well with that one consider the source, Tweety. With him it always.........

.............depends which way the wind is blowing and if the sun is out. I am sure glad he did not to decide to run as a Dem in Pa for the Senate, although my guess is that he was strongly discouraged.

[No Elephants]

62. Exactly. And, FWIW, I don't believe he ever really intended to run.

I think it was a ploy around the time to re-negotiate his broadcasting contract.

[pattmarty]

66. Yeah, could be. I always thought of his ego, he would LOVE to be........

..........President if he could.

[krkaufman]

69. "consider the source", indeed

Well with that one consider the source, Tweety. With him it always depends which way the wind is blowing and if the sun is out.

I'm not surprised that Tweety wasn't on top of the actual facts of the story. I will always remember (however vaguely) one of Rachel's early appearances on MSNBC, when Tweety was literally dumbstruck with the facts that Rachel had brought to a discussion. (as though she'd performed some miracle)

[Oceansaway]

6. K&R...n/t

[LiberalFighter]

7. That statement doesn't even directly indicate that his office was involved.

Just that his office was in the same building.

[Purveyor]

11. That is the way I read it also... eom

[wordpix]

73. probably the militia practicing for its Apr. 19 VA national park rally

[midnight]

8. Police should check into why e-mails he says are threatening toward his

family. It is one thing to not report threats toward himself, but does he have a right to prevent his family from seeking protection?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. I agree.

Any official who has received threats should report them.

[xultar]

9. Knew it. There aren't enough liberals in the area to do shit to his stuff.

[fedupinBushcountry]

16. The city of Richmond

is very liberal it's the county in which it is in that isn't. But I don't think it was anyone liberal or in fact I think it was just a freak coincidence.

[underpants]

19. Local RW radio host followed the report of the police report with....wait for it...

THEY ARE SHOT AT KANTOR'S OFFICE!!!

and I mean directly following the "news" on WRVA.

He went on to say that there is no PROOF that teaparties are doing anything.

I called in and got on-I pointed out that the police officially said that Kantor's office was not shot at and that he had said it was. I just repeated and repeated and repeated it. The caller after me did the same thing, this is supposed to be the typical RW radio crap....it was hilarious to listen to.

[vduhr]

25. OMG!

I just spent the better of an hour on Facebook arguing the same thing. There were a couple of people on there that would just not listen to the facts. I was arguing the fact that the bullet had been fired in the air and bullets can come down anywhere when fired upward. They continued to argue with me, accusing me of all kinds of strange things, and I had to repeat myself more than I could count, try to state the facts that the police had reported. One person resorted to childish insults, and when I ended by saying that "we CANNOT assume that the bullet was meant for Cantor's office", that same person responded by quoting me "we cannot assume..." then asking me "How do you know that?" If I had been drinking something, I would have done a spit take, or choked.

Conservatives are a real piece of work, I tell ya'

[underpants]

27. It wasn't even Cantor's office

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8020081

[wordpix]

74. yes but Cantor THINKS this is his office & no doubt the PR firm made this shit up for him

The article says it's a place where congressmen gather. The repukes want to be threatened, too! That's their new narrative---THEY are the victims of violence, not the Dems, but THEM THEM THEM!!! :grr:

[kestrel91316]

12. The police also said it happened at 1 AM. It set off a security alarm.

[wordpix]

75. could it be the PR firm set this up for Cantor to whine about??????

[thereismore]

13. Oooh, I know! Somebody was celebrating the passage of HCR! nt

[mwb970]

14. I knew the story didn't smell right when I heard him say it.

I should have just assumed he was lying. Duh.

[whathehell]

65. Frankly, when I first heard it. I thought he may have HIRED someone to do it

just to make the Dems look bad.."equivalence" ya know.

[wordpix]

76. and now that I read it was really his PR firm that was hit, I'm totally with you!

Those PR people, full of creativity!

[whathehell]

79. HA!...as Tweety would say...We're right!

[Kingofalldems]

15. Repubs continue to lie

[LynneSin]

17. But....but ....but... It was Democrats flaming the fire of reactionarism!!

what a load of crock. Might as well carve a backwards "B" on his face

[Kali]

41. "Might as well carve a backwards "B" on his face"

great line to toss at poor repuke "victims":rofl:

[Enthusiast]

61. That was good, LynneSin! nt

[Jefferson23]

18. From Cantor:

Last update - 22:52 25/03/2010


U.S. Congressman Cantor: I've been threatened because I'm Jewish

By Natasha Mozgavaya, Haaretz Correspondent

U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor said Thursday that he believed many of the threats leveled against him since he assumed office may be in part to the fact that he is Jewish.

"There's been a lot of reports of threats and the potential for violence against members of Congress," said Cantor, who is the only Jewish Republican Congressman and serves as the minority whip in the House.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159173.html

[howmad1]

21. Kantor makes me kinda embarassed.......

....to be Jewish. There ought to be a special place in hell for him.

[Jefferson23]

23. Don't be, I don't feel that way. Just expose his bullshit, that's the best

thing we can do, I think. Cantor is responsible for his behavior, not Jews.

[vduhr]

36. Geez.

"U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor said Thursday that he believed many of the threats leveled against him since he assumed office may be in part to the fact that he is Jewish."

He "BELEIVED" many of the threats leveled against him..."MAY BE IN PART to the fact that" he is Jewish. The only real fact he stated there was that he is Jewish.

You know how many right-wing followers will only hear this: "Cantor said Thursday that many of the threats leveled against him may be in part that he is Jewish".

And that's just what he's counting on by wording it the way he did.

[wordpix]

77. oh G_d

[The_Commonist]

22. I'm so glad I waited a couple of hours...

...to judge this story.
Of course, it was bullshit.
And, I'm not the least bit surprised...

[Doctor_J]

50. I didn't wait

I knew at the beginning it was a lie, just like everything that any Repuke says

[The_Commonist]

51. You didn't know, you assumed.

You were right, of course, but you didn't "know" it was a lie.

[Doctor_J]

80. Actually I knew

Just like I knew that that stupid bitch with the O carved in her forehead 18 months ago was lying. Republican lies are not intended to fool anyone but the dumbest in America - Fox "News" watchers and Limbeciles.

[Jefferson23]

26. I just remembered, this was simliar to the Lou Dobbs gun fire, no?

Turned out hunting season had just begun or something along those lines.

[datasuspect]

31. this is just a small amount of information they CHOOSE to disseminate in accordance with a marketing

program.

[ShrimpScampi]

32. Color me surprised

Of course he lied. That's the M.O. of the Republicans. As I listened to Cantor's speech, here is basically what I heard: 1. whine about how he is a victim too 2. blame the Democrats and 3. be an apologist for the Tea Party.

In short, waah waah waah...point finger point finger....dodge responsibility

Did I miss anything?

[swimboy]

54. Thanks. And welcome to DU!

:hi:

[mikeytherat]

57. Swimmy! Wassup?

mikey_the_rat

[RollWithIt]

33. I take this as a sign from god... Republicans shoot from up close...

we just fire in the air and it randomly lands in their office.

[vduhr]

42. ROFL!

:thumbsup:

[truthisfreedom]

35. Wait, it HAD to be a liberal. Let me lay it out for you.

1] Intelligence disparities between rethugs and liberals are drastic... Democrats demonstrate an IQ average more than 10 points higher than rethugs.

2] The shooter HAD to be a trigonometry whiz. Otherwise, how could he/she calculate the exact angle at which to fire the gun so the falling bullet would enter his window?

3] So if the shooter was a trig whiz, and Dems are smart, then the shooter was a Democrat!

[Grassy Knoll]

37. Testing, 1,2,3......testing......

[idrahaje]

38. oh darn, God shot at Cantor's office. whoops

O_O

[JerseygirlCT]

39. So... it was likely one of his yahoos shooting guns

that landed on his window?

Stepping in his own S&*t?

[RoccoR5955]

40. The press release was misreported.

It should have read, "Richmond police say the bullshit that hit a window of RepubliCON Virginia Congressman Eric (Crybaby) Cantor's office, had been the result of his not having his diaper changed."

[JNelson6563]

43. lol

What a moran.

[Hepburn]

44. Cantor = fucking POS GOP trash...

...lying jerk...:mad:

[myrna minx]

45. K&R n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. It was probably one of the teaboogers

shooting off a gun because he was pissed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. Any Starbucks nearby?

[swimboy]

55. Excellent point.

Mike, Alex, Run!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

56. Trudea has kept me sane for over 30 years.

[struggle4progress]

58. Ah. Merely someone showing love for the 2nd amendment!

Perhaps Mr. Cantor would like to praise the bullet hole now ...

[Cha]

67. ..

lol

[wishlist]

59. Good that it is being reported to not be a deliberate attack

This should help to defuse the Repub defense that both sides are responsible for recent attacks.

[No Elephants]

63. A bullet fired from far away coincidentally hit an office that is NOT Cantor's and he's crying anti-

Semitism by Democrats?

God, please help me not to hate. Please. I'm begging. I really need help on this with these people.

[Stables2010]

70. I doubt the racist threats hes been getting come from the Left

how ever much the gop would like you to believe that.

[madmax]

68. Liar, liar pants on fire.

They can't help themselves, it's something in the Repuke genes.

[wordpix]

71. that's what you get when your gun control laws are almost nil - VA scored 17% on

the Brady Campaign's list of commonsense gun controls, one of worst in the nation

[PurityOfEssence]

78. Personally, I think the downward angle was because it was God shooting at him...

...but he's such a crappy shot because he doesn't exist.