The thing is it seems both extremely impractical and symbolically upsetting to have them there. But they need to have a real conversation about the fact members are worried their own colleagues are potential threats to their lives then.
https://twitter.com/wesleylowery/status/1349163797861294080
Yeah the metal detectors are pretty far downstream from the fact members are accusing unnamed colleagues of scouting for the insurrectionists northjersey.com/story/news/pol…
The repeated theme over and over today is that members are scared of their far right colleagues in a very real and physical sense, not metaphorically. This is going to be the actual unity issue moving forward.
https://twitter.com/emmaladyrose/status/1349204101461139457
House members — in both parties — are saying they’re scared of this member. Not politically, literally scared for their safety. There needs to be some resolution to that or it’s going to hang over the entire Congress.
https://twitter.com/repboebert/status/1349171194046668805
This is one of the members most associated with the 1/6 rally whose campaign website included blatantly extremist language attacking “non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males.” Again, this is what’s happening when you see metal detectors FOR members.
https://twitter.com/mepfuller/status/1349354972601872385
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