The head of the majority of the room, Steve Scalie, said on Thursday that “we cannot let what happened yesterday to be the norm”, when he denounced political violence in the aftermath of Kirk’s death.
“Unfortunately, we have seen the policy deteriorate where some people feel if they do not agree with you politically, they must try to eliminate these people,” said the “Mornings CBS”. “This is not what America is. You know, we solve our differences in the polls.”
SCALISE said about Kirk that “even if people disagreed with him, he did not call them, he was committed and would talk about differences”.
“We have to come back to it,” he said.
SCALISE, which was shot dead by a shooter in 2017 during a practice for the annual Congress baseball match, said “that it was difficult to concentrate” on the floor of the room on Wednesday evening because “my mind continued to return to Charlie and his family, is surely returned to 2017 in the shooting where, you know, a crazy shooter.”
“This cannot be authorized to be acceptable,” he said.
When asked what a more constructive conversation looks like, and the role that Congress plays in the drop in temperature, Scalie said that “one of the greatest things in America is that we have differences and that we can express them”.
“Celebrate the fact that we have differences and that we can express them freely and do not allow anyone to try to threaten someone, to try to physically attack someone for their differences,” said scalizes.
