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Dick Durbin: “The phrase 'don't retreat, reload', putting crosshairs on congressional districts as targets, these sorts of things, I…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2011
The phrase 'don't retreat, reload', putting crosshairs on congressional districts as targets, these sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe this is an acceptable response.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Senator Durbin comments on the dangerous implications of violent political rhetoric.

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