Congresswoman Says Many Mass Murderers ‘End Up Being Democrats’<br />Representative Claudia Tenney, a first-term Republican from Central New York, said in a radio interview on Wednesday<br />that “so many” mass murderers “end up being Democrats.”<br />Democrats immediately condemned her remarks, which came a week after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla.,<br />and called on her to apologize for politicizing gun tragedies.<br />Ms. Tenney said she feared lawful gun owners “are going to be targeted now” even though “in<br />their demographic they have the least amount of crimes of virtually any other demographic<br />The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report this month<br />that counted 100 people killed or injured by “alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called ‘alt-right’” between 2014 and 2018.<br />James Hodgkinson, who opened fire last year on Republicans during their practice for an annual bipartisan congressional baseball game, had written anti-Trump<br />and anti-Republican remarks on social media ahead of the attack.<br />He wounded several people, including Representative Steve Scalise, a top Republican lawmaker, though only the gunman died in that shooting.
