Sen. Rand Paul: If the Capitol Police hadn't been at baseball practice, 'it would have been a massacre'

Sen. Rand Paul.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) described being at baseball practice for the annual congressional baseball game when a gunman opened fire on the Republicans on the field.

"I was in the batting cage at the time," Paul recalled on MSNBC. "The first shot was sort of an isolated shot. I grew up in the South, and I just thought someone had discharged a shotgun, which isn't that unusual in the South. But then I thought, well, we are in the city, we aren't in the country here."

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.