Minutes after Representative Steve Scalise and several congressional aides on Wednesday were shot while practicing for a baseball game, journalists on MSNBC and Twitter immediately politicized the attempted massacre, offering calls for gun control.

Although MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle admitted “we don’t know what type of gun” was used, she speculated, “How difficult is it to get a weapon like this?” MSNBC security expert Clint Watts replied, “It's not difficult at all.... We have very loose gun laws around rifles, semiautomatic rifles, whatever it might be.”

Atlantic editor David Frum went on a Tweet storm, lashing out about the Second Amendment-friendly Virginia:

He then mocked those who would offer prayers:

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos offered a sarcastic, snarky call for gun control:

Ramos, it should be pointed out, has called for repealing the Second Amendment. So his motives are more than a little suspect.

New Republic writer Malcolm Harris appeared to celebrated the attempted mass murder of Republicans:

(The journalist is also an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in 2012.)



Hayley MacMillen, the editor of Allure magazine whined about not being able to call for gun control minutes after an attempted shooting:

Apparently, it’s never too soon for liberal journalists to politicize a tragedy.

A transcript of the MSNBC exchange is below: