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

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