Five years ago, on June 14, Louisiana Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was shot and almost killed by a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter fueled by rage against Republicans. In an early morning attack at a baseball diamond, as more than a dozen Republican members of Congress practiced for an upcoming charity game, Scalise was one of four victims shot. Yet today, ask Scalise what he thinks about the demand for so-called “red flag” laws in the wake of recent mass shootings, and he’ll tell you he strongly opposes them. Why? Because taking away someone’s firearms without due process, in his words, “happens to be unconstitutional.”
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July 16, 2021
On July 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that it had indicted two California men, Ian Benjamin Rogers and Jarrod Copeland, on charges related to an alleged plot to destroy the Democratic party headquarters in Sacramento with incendiary devices. According to communications between the two men, they were animated by grievance over Donald Trump’s loss of the 2020 election, and planned to conduct their attack after President Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021.
The announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice claims that the men hoped that the attack “might start a movement to overthrow the government.”
Copeland was allegedly affiliated with the Three Percenters. Although Rogers has not been identified as a member of a militia group, he had a three percenters bumper sticker on his vehicle and had once attended a barbecue hosted by the Three Percenters. Federal agents alleged that that Copeland may have attempted to contact the r
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