WI: A successful Congressional baseball practice attack

The events of the other day involving the shooting at the Republican batting practice for the Congressional Baseball Game got me thinking--what if someone both carried out an attack like this prior to 2017, AND succeeded. Rand Paul said that if the police had not been there, there would've been a massacre.

But in past years, for baseball practices for the Congressional Baseball Game, were the police always there? We'll assume an attack like this could occur on either Republicans or Democrats. And even if the police always ended up being there, would they have succeeded?

What I'm imagining is that sometime during Clinton's term, a pissed-off Vietnam vet comes up with the idea of attacking the practices for the Congressional Baseball Game, and with both skill and luck, manages to kill a dozen Congressmen or more, as well as a few others there, possibly including police officers.

So what are the effects of this attack being carried out? Over a dozen Congressmen are dead, and several wounded, and in total the death toll could be over 20 people, making it one of the deadliest shootings in US history. How are politics affected--is Clinton still impeached? How is culture affected?
 
Just a heads up, there's a fairly significant possibly this could be moved to Chat, since it's a very blatant allegory for a current event.
 
Just a heads up, there's a fairly significant possibly this could be moved to Chat, since it's a very blatant allegory for a current event.

If it belongs in Chat then it belongs in Chat. But IIRC I've seen things like this which have stayed in this section. But I wish people on this site would stop making posts like this ("this belongs in ASB/Chat/wherever") and just let the mods move it (report the thread to be moved, etc.), since they contribute nothing to the discussion (yes, I'm aware I'm guilty of this too with this post).
 
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