Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise mentioned Thursday that “we can’t let what occurred yesterday be the norm,” as he decried political violence within the aftermath of Kirk’s loss of life.
“Sadly, we have seen politics degrading the place some individuals really feel in the event that they disagree with you politically, they have to attempt to go and remove these individuals,” Scalise mentioned on “CBS Mornings.” “That’s not what America is. You realize, we remedy our variations on the poll field.”
Scalise mentioned of Kirk that “even when individuals disagreed with him, he wasn’t calling them names, he would have interaction and discuss in regards to the variations.”
“We have got to get again to that,” he mentioned.
Scalise, who was shot by a gunman in 2017 at a observe for the annual congressional baseball recreation, mentioned “it was onerous to focus” on the Home flooring Wednesday evening as a result of “my thoughts simply stored going again to Charlie and his household, absolutely went again to 2017 within the taking pictures the place, you recognize, a crazed gunman tried to kill me and a couple of dozen different members of Congress due to our political opinions.”
“This cannot be allowed to be acceptable,” he mentioned.
Requested what a extra constructive dialog appears like, and the function Congress performs in decreasing the temperature, Scalise mentioned “one of many biggest issues of America is that we do have variations and that we are able to categorical them.”
“Have fun the truth that we have now variations and we are able to freely categorical them, and do not permit anyone to attempt to threaten any individual, to attempt to bodily assault any individual for his or her variations,” Scalise mentioned.
