Washington – Barely a day after the rampage outside Tucson, possible policy changes stemming from the massacre started to emerge as well as charges that the shootings are being politicized.
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U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa., said he intends to introduce legislation that would treat potentially threatening language against members of Congress the way it is handled when it involves the president.
During a bipartisan conference call, the U.S. Capitol Police, an agency that handles security for Congress and its visitors in Washington, urged lawmakers to work more closely with their authorities across the country.
On CNN, Brady said his bill would prohibit the use of threatening language or potentially violent imagery, such as placing crosshairs over the names of members of Congress, as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did with Giffords last year.
“We need to be closing down this rhetoric,” he said.
Yes, let’s ban all speech that we don’t like. Because it might encourage someone to kill someone. That’s the totalitarian way.