from the tea parties and Sarah Palin was potentially dangerous. "I can
say that in the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30
years — they've never seen it like this…when people do that, they've
gotta realize there's consequences to that action," she said on MSNBC.
Tuscon Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries called Giffords' previous
concerns about violent rhetoric "political gamesmenship," claiming
that if Giffords was so concerned, then she is to blame for Saturday's
shootings because she "had no security whatsoever":
"It's political gamesmanship. The real case is that she [Giffords] had
no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant
fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this
rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event
in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?" he said. "For
all the stuff they accuse her [Palin] of, that gun poster has not done
a tenth of the damage to the political discourse as what we're hearing
right now."
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