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Congress Reconsiders Security After Minnesota Shooting—With Thoughts and Prayers, Obviously

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After yet another shooting, lawmakers are shocked—again—that violent rhetoric sometimes ends in, well, violence. So now they’re “reviewing protocols,” which is D.C. speak for “writing sternly worded emails.”

After a mass shooting outside a campaign office in Minnesota left two injured and one dead, Congress is “reconsidering security protocols.” Which, in Capitol Hill speak, means they’ll form a committee, issue a PDF, and hope the headlines go away by Friday.

The shooter allegedly had a documented history of political threats and an online trail littered with extremist rants.

Still, he walked right up to a public campaign event and opened fire.

Shocked lawmakers have responded with the same formula they’ve used since Sandy Hook: sorrow, statements, and the bare minimum.

Speaker responses were swift.

“We are devastated.” “We must do more.” “We will investigate.” But when asked if that includes legislation on guns, hate speech, or domestic extremism?

Cue the foot-shuffling and word salad.

One senior Republican called it “a mental health crisis,” then voted against funding for mental health programs the same afternoon.

A Democrat proposed “enhanced event security,” which likely means hiring more private guards—not fixing the systems that let armed men walk in like they’re RSVPing.

Meanwhile, staffers are rattled, and local officials are furious. This isn’t theoretical anymore.

Campaign events have become risk zones.

Volunteers now get active shooter briefings with their phone banks.

It’s not politics—it’s survival. The real kicker?

This isn’t the first attack this year. It’s the fourth.

And each time, the pattern repeats: condolences, outrage, maybe a hearing, and then silence.

The problem isn’t policy confusion—it’s political cowardice.

Analysts say Congress is more focused on protecting its optics than its people.

Any serious move risks backlash from the gun lobby or far-right media.

So instead, we get cosmetic fixes: bulletproof glass, panic buttons, metal detectors. All reactive.

None preventive. Voters are catching on.

A recent poll shows over 70% of Americans want stricter protections against political violence.

But wanting something doesn’t mean it’ll happen.

Not in a system built on gridlock, lobby money, and performative grief.

The truth is ugly: Congress isn’t scared of violence.

It’s scared of the NRA, scared of Fox News clips, scared of being primary’d by a guy with more ammo than votes.

So the cycle rolls on. And next week? Thoughts, prayers, repeat.

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