Richard Durbin actually said...

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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Senator Durbin discusses the implications of violent rhetoric in politics following the Tucson shootings.

01/16/2011

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