claim: Alexandria shooter James Hodgkinson protested with a sign featuring a Rand Paul tweet.
origin: A gunman opened fire on a group of Republican lawmakers at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia on 14 June 2017, leaving five people injured, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was left in critical condition. Shortly after, social media users circulated a photograph that appeared to show the gunman, James T. Hodgkinson, holding a sign with an image of a Rand Paul tweet about the Second Amendment:Â Â Â The tweetÂ quotes author and commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano saying that the Second Amendment was written to allow people to shoot at the government â€œwhen it becomes tyrannical.â€ The photograph, however, has been doctored.Â Associated Press photographer Derik Holtmann took the real photographÂ in 2012. In it, Hodgkinson stands outside a post office in Belleville, Illinois, holding a sign that reads â€œTax the rich like congress did for 70 years til Reaganâ€™s â€œTrickle Downâ€ We Need â€œ20 Brackets â€“ $20 millionâ€: