How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History

How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History:
"Roger Williams cannot enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July anymore.
The 68-year-old Texan is a longtime NRA member, but these days, he can’t hunt.
Once, during a congressional committee hearing, the chairman banged a gavel — clap — on the desk, and Roger Williams fell out of his seat.
It’s been almost a year since Williams and nearly two dozen of his Republican colleagues were shot at as they were wrapping up baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 14, 2017.
...He thinks about that morning almost every day.
They were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game, one of those cheerful bipartisan events that's becoming extinct in Washington.
It's an annual game, held for charity, where Democrats play Republicans, staffers come out to cheer their bosses on, and everyone shakes hands at the end, reporters and lobbyists looking on.
...The shooting was, Alexandria’s elected prosecutor concluded, “an act of terrorism” that was “fueled by rage against Republican legislators.”
...Those nine minutes were a near miss of modern American history, between the dark aftermath of a deadly, mass political assassination and our own reality, in which most people don’t think very often about June 14, 2017, the difference between everything changing, and almost nothing changing at all..."
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