AP: “Texas church gunman had 3 guns no carry license” It's hard enough to see adults, but when you see babies, little ones, I'm talking 3, 4, 5, 6 years old. “Inside the chapel, bodies lay strewn about and almost everyone inside was covered in blood, making it difficult to distinguish the wounded and dead from the uninjured. ‘Wherever you walked in the church, it was death,’ he said. THE LATEST FROM TEXAS - “Sheriff: 'Wherever you walked in the church, it was death,’” by The San Antonio Express-News’ Caleb Downs: “The inside of First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was like something out of a nightmare when Wilson County Sheriff Joe D. Indeed, Republican proposals to raise revenue by targeting high-tax states dominated by Democrats could endanger Republicans in districts like this one, particularly in states like New Jersey, New York and California, perhaps putting the party’s majority in Congress in peril.” ON THE GROUND - ALEX BURNS on A1 of today’s NYT in West Caldwell, New Jersey - “Tax Plan Burdens Blue-State Republicans and Their Districts”: “It is in places like West Caldwell, in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, where Republicans are facing the most furious internal resistance in their drive to overhauling the tax code - and the greatest political risks if they succeed. Ryan will be raising money later this week in the southeast. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - PAUL RYAN’S OCTOBER FUNDRAISING NUMBERS - Speaker PAUL RYAN will announce tomorrow at a closed party meeting that he’s transferring $1.5 million to the NRCC, bringing his total transfers to the campaign committee to $30 million this year.

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