'Hate in their heart': Lawmakers fear more violence after Capitol attacks

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After freshman GOP Rep. Nancy Mace announced she would be opposing President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the election, the single mother of two feared so much for her life that she applied for a concealed carry permit and sent her kids hundreds of miles from D.C.

Democratic Rep. Al Green received police assistance at two airports on his trip home last week, after pro-Trump travelers harassed him at his gates in Nashville and Houston.

Another GOP House member flew home expecting to be greeted by concerned constituents after he endured the attack last week. Instead, what he and GOP colleagues heard chilled them to the core: “Do you think that Congress got the message?”

Lawmakers of both parties have fielded a barrage of personal threats that only seem to be intensifying in the days since a Trump-incited siege in Washington left five people dead and dozens injured. Some of those incidents have taken place away from the now-heavily fortified Capitol grounds, forcing members to take cover in impromptu locations like airport bathrooms.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hate-in-their-heart-lawmakers-fear-more-violence-after-capitol-attacks/ar-BB1cFqnk?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

[elleng]

1. Just got this awful thought:

Do you/we think maybe the only thing that will deter the rwnjs from serious damage, as time goes on, will be broad armed conflict in which Govt forces prevail?

[LiberalLoner]

2. I really think it might come down to that. ☹️

[Irish_Dem]

4. They want a civil war. And have lost all reason. It may end badly for them. nt

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Malheur Refuge incident was a dress rehearsal

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/01/armed-occupation-of-malheur-refuge-was-dress-rehearsal-for-violent-takeover-of-nations-capitol-extremist-watchdogs-say.html

Five years ago this month, Ammon Bundy led a 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after protesting the return to federal prison of two Oregon ranchers convicted of setting fire to public land.

Bundy was acquitted of all charges after his arrest on allegations of conspiracy and impeding federal employees through intimidation, threat or force.

On Wednesday, the extraordinary images of a violent mob of right-wing Trump supporters storming the nation’s Capitol, incited by a president who refused to accept the 2020 election results, were no surprise to groups that have tracked extremists in the West.

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