We could just improve our gun laws, but no…. Let’s remove access to the only way people get to speak with our elected officials directly. ‘Merica!

If you're doing the right thing you should have nothing to fear

Lawmakers = cowards. Worried about political violence? Then don’t incite it with your words or rhetoric. Worried about guns? Then maybe get some grownups to the table to pass some common sense laws.

Anything to avoid answering questions.

Easy. Do your job. Show up. Don’t be a cúnt.

Hold them inside and provide security. Show a little gun control. Maybe look at other countries. Seel actual freedom for the majority.

*Seek

Perfect excuse for cowardly blue maga Dems to avoid the fury.

We must cancel all town halls to protect our legislators! Children will continue attending school as usual. Sorry about the risk of shootings, that’s just the price of freedom, kids!

Simple -- just issue handguns to everyone as they enter the town hall. 😉 I mean, that's the theory, right? The solution to gun violence is more guns, not less. Nobody would dare start shooting if everyone around him also is armed. I challenge MAGA to test this theory at their town halls. 😈

YOU MUST EVEN IF FROM A BULLETPROOF BUBBLE. REPUBLICANS WELL FUCK THEM, DEMOCRATS MUST REESTABLISH THE HEART OF AMERICA AND TRUMPETS AND MAGETS MUST BE POLITICALLY DESTROYED PERMANENTLY!

Wasn't the same stuff said after Gabby Giffords was shot? Wash, rinse, repeat ...

i don't know why. they were already dragging anyone with a critical word out by thugs/police.

Maybe start encouraging hatred might lower the chances of getting shot

Many were not having town halls anyway! Kirk was not a lawmaker.

Nancy Mace can’t even get people to show up, so I’m sure that’s not helping

The danger was always there, "this is America". Most elected officials felt they could ignore their constituents if the were sufficiently sponsored by corporate America. Republicans recently got more scared because they knew the bill they voted for is unpopular and destructive.

They were always kind of a joke anyway IMO. I don't know that I ever learned anything or felt like constituents were heard.

Maybe don’t hold them in the open air, but in a secure location. Quit abandoning the people who put you where you are. All jobs have hazards. Face them or find another job. You represent us. Act like it.

But it was not discussed when Gabby Giffords was very nearly assassinated. Are people on the right more valuable or representative of the population?

Republicans don't care about their voters enough to meet and greet them in a public space.

That is so true

Republicans were already avoiding their constituents who they fucked over. Then a convenient excuse for their pre-existing cowardice dropped.

So, the GOP is maintaining its strategy of ignoring its constituents. Got it

Either do town halls or RESIGN. Fucking cowards.

Are you a recist media figure? No? You're good to go. Of course the entire GOP is disqualified.

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My GOP congressman hasn’t had a town hall meeting since Trump took office

Kirk was not a lawmaker. He was a racist hatemonger. GOP was being booed all over the country long before this ang GOP had recommended against town halls.. This is just an excuse to continue what they were already doing.

* Donald Trump is a leader of a white nationalists Christian cult. Trump is a evil lie. *

No Politico, you sad propagandists, Republicans lawmakers were rethinking town halls because voters were getting in their faces. Dems are still doing town halls. And the security issue could be fixed with magnetometers and a few guards. Republicans just don’t want to talk to their voters.

they quote multiple Democrats saying that they don't want to do town halls anymore because they don't want to be held accountable for Gaza. they're all cowards

That's just Politico bothsidesing. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Convenient.

They found the excuse they need

Ahhh, yes You represent #weThePeople You are here to serve #US not #oligarchs or the rich or upper class above us !!! F #republican #cowards

Here’s politico giving their right wing republican buddies a free pass to ignore their constituents, but if dems did this the garbage propagandist politico would screaming like a stuck pig about how the dems have turned their backs on their continents, PoLitico is GARBAGE

I would be satisfied if my congressman would just answer the phone or reply to emails or allow constituents to contact him in any way whatsoever. Maybe I should leave a voice mail that I’d like to make a campaign donation and need the address

And yet you are fine with sending kids to die at school. Shame on all of you!

"Our opinions as leaders are so reprehensible that we can no longer face our constituents"

Guns sure are making you free

Yippers. That's what we need, more separation between Politicians and their constituents. That way, neither would have any idea what the is doing or wants. That's what I call Democracy. Trying to please everyone isn't easy. In fact it can be deadly; particularly in this country👽

They’re just cowards

If I were as rotten and corrupt as these lawmakers are, I would rethink it also.

The corrupt cowards were hiding from their disgusted constituents long before the Mormon Groyper took out Charlie Kirk.

George Santos wants to hold a town hall? Fascinating. I could’ve sworn he was behind bars by now.

Have them at a town hall or end up having it in your front lawn when the people show up. They don't have the luxury of cowardice.

Most town halls are held indoors. Much easier to have security measures in place. Kirk was outside and did not have stringent security measures in place

All of this violence brought by trump.

This is pathetic. There was very little security at Kirk’s event. Now the cowardly rethuglicans are screaming they’re too scared to go to town halls? Just another excuse to stay away from their constituents wrath.

“We can’t have an open society and one that talks about politics if everybody’s worried about getting shot,” Bentz said. Oh, I'm just going to put it out there that you can deal with the guns (and social media). Just a thought.

Rest in Peace faithful servant.

Stephen Miller is a Nazi gaslighter.

Yes he is

I will take Nazis for $500 please Alex.

Rumpelstiltskin, Rumpelstiltskin, Rumpelstiltskin!

Republican politicians, not lawmakers, were rethinking town halls because their constituents were demanding answer to why republicans were fucking them over with tariffs and cuts to Medicaid. Saying Kirk is the reason is a cop out.

Especially since he was killed by one of your own

Lawmakers should deeply consider serving our country rather than serving one man. This would solve a lot of problems.

Excellent point. Going back to the idea that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Members of Congress who are violating their oath to uphold the constitution need to resign. Starting with those not insuring Domestic Tranquility with their hateful rhetoric . We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility

Gun control would be a start. Just saying.

Why do you have a picture of george santos?

Most lawmakers have been attacked at their homes. Charlie Kirk was neither a lawmaker or at a town hall event. Putting in more restriction re guns seems more logical response if they are worried about personal safety.

There's no hate like Christian hate when they're told hate ain't Christian.

How convenient

How can we? It is your JOB!!!

You can still do town halls live, just screen for weapons. You know, like they do every freakin' day at grade schools!

Cowards, who represent only themselves. www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...

Now they have the perfect excuse to avoid constituents

Hmmmmmm, something fishy is going on. Mighty convenient.

Very few Republicans even held Town Halls. Those who did were primarily using Online Meetings. The few who did show didn’t like the way constituents were making them answer questions. Many politicians then cried foul and claimed those forcing answers were paid crisis actors to make them look bad.

R’s don’t have to worry. They held minimal to nil during the summer recess.

Hearing from constituents is totally different than the Kirk situation. The cowardly Republicans just don’t want their feelings hurt when reality from their policies is voiced in person.

I mean, not saying the sort of shit Charlie Kirk said is a good start.

Oh so suddenly guns are bad?

Then Charlie Kirk was killed….by a MAGA. 🤷‍♂️

MAGAts still can't wrap their simple minds around that.

Give everybody at the town hall a gun. Then Republicans would finally be safe!

If you as a politician, are afraid your constituency......Ask yourself Why!

All republicans need to be removed from office it is the only way to stop the escalating level of hate and violence

I wouldn’t recommend any town halls. Folks are just too crazy right now.

It’s the fucking guns, specially the long guns with a scope. Not having Town Halls won’t save you, beside our kids have no choice but to go to school, you cowards!

The right is unhinged they have always been violent. Everyone should do their town hall meetings via Zoom.

Gun control.

Lmao cowards. They didn't say this after the Minnesota assassinations....

They’re afraid of their own voters. Angry, well armed cretins who have been primed for violence and are realizing their representatives have been cynically lying to them this whole time.

How many deaths does it take before a leader is courageous enough to tackle the gun problem.

Kirk's murder keeps on delivering for MAGA. The assassin loved Trump so much he just had to kill Kirk who would not shut up about releasing the Epstein files, as all the good Republicans in Congress dutifully did. And now, no more town halls. And, a hornet's nest of MAGA Nazis and admirers stirred.

What a craven shower of shitebags. Two elected representatives were assassinated, fuck all, children murdered at school, fuck all. A racist, facist, antisemite is murdered by an extremist for not being racist, facist & extremist enough, the Right shites their pants. Release the Trump/Epstein files.

They dont want to pay for their hate speech.

Well Charlie Kirk paid a heavy price for his own rhetoric..so sad it had to end up this way. It's past time to turn down the political temperature!

That’s a convenient out for Republicans who are making terrible decisions that affect their constituents behind the cloak.

Melissa Hortman's murder got a fraction of the press coverage that fascist Charlie Kirk is getting. Why is his death "untenable" and "changing things" but a democratic official being assissinated was just business as usual?

Doncha think outdoor rallies are history, sort of like convertible Presidential limos are now?

Maybe if they don't say hateful things and lie, and also do what their constituents ask them to do? Gabby Giffords already paid this price and Republicans failed her in that moment.

Try doing something about sensible gun laws

Well magascum cannot be bothered to do them

More people can attend virtual town halls but they have to make it so people can ask questions and that they aren't just lectures.

How can we? Enforce gun control.

Bullshit excuse.

When a public servant has to find way to protect themselves from their constituents, it doesn’t speak to the danger those constituents pose, but rather the failure of the public servant. And he deserved to die, as all Nazis do.

There's are new dynamics in election campaign politics now. Initially the cuckservative Rethuglicunts were wary to face the ever growing resentment of Trump's MAGA policies - the assassination of extreme-Rightwing MAGA hero Charlie Kirk - AND the Trump-Epstein Pedophile DoJ Collusion & Coverup.

Trump is literally a toddler.

An internal rotting from inside Cankles McTACO Tits geriatric sick fuck w/the degenerate mind of an adolescent whose Cult of MAGA praises him as though he is some sort of savior and messiah. But a pathological liar, convicted and indicted felon and pedo. #TrumpPedoCoverup #ReleaseEpsteinFiles

Power potato fist!!! Thank you your flatulence. 🤢

Don't think I've ever seen a normal person act like this.

So now the "God given Freedom" is beeing SACRIFICED for the 2nd Amendment?? #Republicans are willing to SACRIFICE the entire "BILL OF RIGHTS" for their #GUNS??

he wasn’t a legislator. why weren’t they rethinking this when a rightie nutjob murdered actual legislator melissa hortmann?

let's be real, they were already looking for any excuse to end town halls. they don't even want to pretend to listen to their voters if you're too scared to be in a room of local folks, maybe your job is too dangerous for you and you should retire

You must not remove town halls, lest you remove democracy itself.

Another excuse for not holding town halls. Soon everything political will be secret if the republicans have their way. The farther away from their constituents the easier it is to screw them over.Sycophants every one of them. They're so afraid of trumps retaliation that they'll say yes to everything

I thought George Santos was serving time.

Sure. Just hold them in schools that have metal detectors

George Santos‘s mother looks terrible!

I'm sure it wasn't because Republicans were getting absolutely excoriated by there conservative voters.

Maybe someone should ask Gabby Giffords about that subject. Democrats continue to hold town halls after she was shot. Maybe if Republicans didn't enact legislation that terrorized their constituents, they wouldn't need to be afraid of their constituents.

We could, you know, just get rid of guns.

Ha, Ha, Ha. We can’t do town halls because someone with a gun might shoot us. That’s what we’ve been telling you for over thirty years. Guns don’t kill you, but people with guns will kill you! Republicans make everything worse.

Them they need to resign from office. If they won't communicate with their constituents in a meaningful way, they are not doing their jobs. Maybe - here's a thought - they could legislate some goddamn sane gun control and work on breaking down the gun fetish so many Americans have.

Ahh yes. Legislators are universally hated for policy decisions and playing politics with every issue in America but town halls are the problem. You don’t want the risk, don’t run for office. American politics has always had a violent streak in it unfortunately.

Everyone is in danger in this country because these corrupt morons refuse to do their jobs. Now they want to do even less work because a fraction that danger visited someone they knew for a change. Privileged out of touch crybabies rule over us and they’ve driven this country into the ground.

Sounds like a thriving Democracy! I'm sure more guns will fix it!

So, just shut the public out completely? Republicans must be behind this idea

Lol..so they are starting to fear the people... that's a good thing..get used to it, its going to be a bumpy ride

They're more concerned with their own personal safety, but not their words. Through their words, they have inflicted more damage, more pain more heartache, more hostility and fear. It's completely lost on Republicans we fear our own person safety because of who they've become. 😕

When they get things fully gerrymandered, they won't need to continue the charade.

No fear. It's just white Republicans killing other white Republicans.

They don’t want to answer to the voters. Just a lame excuse for not showing up

The woman on the right bares an uncanny resemblance to Thomas the Tank Engine.

Perfect excuse to hide from the people you're supposed to work for.

Republicans in Texas never had them, anyway. Yes, perfect excuse.

Republican lawmakers are not doing townhalls because the legislation they are enacting and their support of this regime are highly unpopular.

This will be a great excuse for repugs who weren’t having Town Halls to not have Town Halls.

Grow a backbone.

They aren't doing them now so maybe this isn't news

Charlie died so they could hide.

They have a point, Republicans can't safely have town halls because some MAGA might shoot them.

Im sure having zoom meetings will stop people from being unhappy with the laws and policies they pass.

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Gee I wonder what kind of political rhetoric brought us to this point

Suddenly, they’re all snowflakes...

Charlie Kirk..... in his own words ~ "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it's an initiation..." Not sure why people are so bent out of shape. Seems like he got what he wanted. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Sooo now they’re afraid to get their faces eaten? In public? Is that right? They have created a monster and it’s come home to roost. Big time.

Get personal guards & use xray machines for venues like Kamala & Biden’s kids have to since tRump ended their secret service security protection.

Kirk wasn’t a politician. Don’t use his death to deny the citizens the right to speak to their elected representatives. If you can’t face them, then get the hell out of public office!

Kirk was a nazi propagandist + stochastic terrorist who was murdered by a MAGA nazi from a competing sect of the cult. The US has a nazi problem, nobody will be safe as long as any nazis are free. Being a fascist is a choice to promote genocidal violence, an act of violence. Criminalize fascism!

Spot on.

Yessss yessss keep pushing this angle! Shout this angle from the mountaintops! Keep doubling down on this obviously failing strategy that looks tone-deaf and ghoulish! Please help us win, keep doing what you're doing!

Okay.

Charlie Kirk was a modern day Joseph Goebbels.

Small-face Goebbels.

OMG you are retarded, PLease don't shoot me

It’s time to block Politico

Makes sense. We should be able to just talk, but here we go. Corruption will flourish and use "violence" as an excuse to not engage the public. GREAT.

Stop saying shit that you know pisses people off. When you flat-out tell people that they should be willing to die just so you can have the right to own a gun, you can't be surprised when people are pissed off by it.

When you think the solution to gun violence is more guns and preach about how an armed society is a polite society while society is becoming less polite, you can't be surprised when people don't believe anything you say and accuse you of inciting violence.

And when you're so soft that you back down whenever your colleagues start voicing opinions that you know get people riled up, instead of standing up and telling your colleagues to chill the fuck out, you can't be surprised when nobody listens to you when you start expecting people to calm down.

I have said nothing about gun control, just the consequences of tragedies like this. Please don't put words in my mouth. If you want to know, you can ask though.

Sorry? Who is this reply to?

Anyone who thinks we should be allowed to "just talk".

This still doesn't make any sense. You should be able to talk rationally. If you aren't able to do that, you shouldn't be speaking in public. Exchange of ideas with those you disagree with is critical.

Telling people that they should be willing to die just so everyone else can have the right to own a gun, is so far beyond "rational" and "mature" that it's not even funny anymore.

You notice everyone is demanding we mourn Charlie Kirk properly but nobody on either side of the aisle is condoning his violent rhetoric.

I don't see anyone, Republicans or Democrats, condemning statements like this and trying to distance themselves from it. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

It is similar in style to drug legalization. Alcohol is bad so why is this other bad thing illegal. That isn't an argument for legalization at all, just that we aren't logically consistent.

But arguing for having guns everywhere but fighting against any attempts at keeping those guns out of the hands of people who are known threats to their fellow countrymen, is also not being logically consistent.

It was an interesting but flawed argument. In this video he draws comparisons to driving where 50k people die for the freedom and benefits of faster travel. I really disagree that this is an example of violent rhetoric though.

Mourning him seems theatrical TBH, a lot of people die everyday. If you don't know them personally, it doesn't make sense other than to virtue signal (something the right apparently despises). Celebrating his violent death is a huge problem though.

You won't get much of an argument to this from me. Still the second amendment as the right and ability to defend yourself against a tyrannical government feels important. I am just not sure how likely most of the right could realistically defend themselves against the US military.

"I'm not sure how armed citizens could realistically defend themselves against the strongest military in the world"... seriously?

Let me edumacate you in English so you can understand: the government has weapons that can erase entire zip codes in seconds. The AR-15 is a TOY in comparison. Armed citizens have ZERO chance. None. Nada. Zilch.

Why do you reply like this? I have said nothing that makes me an idiot here. I also have not made any of the claims you are replying to. Quit unloading misplaced rage in my direction lol.

Yes seriously, they would get flattened. You snarkily reply that you need to edumacate me in English but clearly can't read yourself lol. I made the same point just without as much sarcasm and implied intellectual superiority.

Just another excuse to avoid answering to their employers

Really?

Excuses for not being accountable to their constituents.

"Can we do that, too?" ~ School children

Yes, quit going to public school so they can keep an uneducated and afraid population. Then they get to keep the money for their wealthy friends, too. This is literally part of their plan. 🤮😡

My Congressman won’t even do one, and all we want to do is get answers to our questions.

Maybe we reconsider representative democracy too? Why should the people we elect show up to listen to us? Am I to understand that the Second Amendment was passed to scare us out of airing all grievances to our own government? From the side that calls me a snowflake while they arm up? Do the job!

So did they not understand that the whole point of town halls were to hold them accountable? Or rather they did and just needed the excuse? Useless cowards.

They expect children to go back to school after their classmates are gunned down in front of them. Now they're all aflutter about their own safety while doing townhalls. Can they be any more hypocritical?

Maybe if they weren't such shit bags and hated their constituents there would be no reason to worry

cowards hidind from epstein files

“We can’t do town halls, we might get shot!” But school kids have to attend classes everyday ‼️

They are trying to make public school as miserable as possible. They want everyone to be homeschooled or pay private tuition. Wouldn't every single public school have metal detectors and guards by now if they have a shit? They hate kids and education. 😡

Town hall events have security, controlled locations, and limit the number of people allowed in. Lawmakers don't want to have to answer questions or explain what they've been doing.

Well, Republicans have always been cowards who are terrified to face their constituents.

Any excuse possible to not show up to their constituents.

lol Susan Collins will definitely say she’s concerned and this is exactly why she hasn’t held a town hall in over 20 years.

all I can say is that, if you are spewing hate and violence or supporting those who do spew hate and violence then, Yes - rethink your town halls.

Here's a thought. Stop with the violent rhetoric. Calling for civil war, for the air force to be sent in to blue cities and labeling more than half the country as domestic terrorists is probably not going to go over well. Threatening your own constituents is going to lead to some anger.

Yet Ilhan Omar showed up to host yet another Town Hall this morning. No stranger to death threats and less lethal disparagement, this Black, female, naturalized American citizen is a face of courage that her colleagues should desire to emulate.

...which is utterly irrelevant to the fact that Republican politicians don't want to face the constituents they are supposed to be serving for their horribly unpopular policy decisions, but since it lets them duck their responsibility to the public in a cowardly manner, they'll roll with that anyway

If they are so far out of touch with the real needs of their constituents- both left and right, they should be afraid to be physically in front of them.

Elected with tainted money and not the least bit accountable. USA ! USA !

Work so they are afraid of doing town halls because they realize it’s their party that’s hunting them. Fucking cowards and losers. I’m happy they are be hunt s by their own constituents. That shit is funny as hell and they deserve it!

Easy, it's called security. And if that's too expensive, do it online, every damned week. But if you try to cover your own behinds, that's a huge mistake. We will remember when we go to vote.

They should go ahead and have them. Hey, this can happen right in their own home like the Senator, her husband and dog. They are cowards and will think if any excuse not to be held accountable to their constituents

"How can we?" By fostering a society where you don't pit your constituents against each other like they're life long enemies for being different than each other.

Fuck Charlie. whatcharliekirksaid.com

How perfect

Bullshit. They were already avoiding them because their policies are unpopular and their constituents want them to represent voters rather than donors.

The answer to the 'how can we' question is: By fixing USA.

Go away from the fire if you can’t stand the heat!

ya'll shoulda kept Liz instead of this punk ass bitch.

Not surprised

If I recall most republicans were already avoiding their constituents amd town halls due to their handing over all authority to Trump and that big beautiful bill they screwed us with. Haven't seen darryl issa in years and he's our representative

If your policies are so controversial that you are afraid to face the people you represent, then maybe you are representing your donors instead of them. CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

Time to overturn Citizens United. CJ Roberts are you listening?

This is why it is so important to win the midterms and banish the GOP once and for all. We need to write new laws, since SCOTUS seems to be determined to overthrow a lot of them.

If Dems took both houses they wold have to get past Chump's veto pen so we may have to wait till we can get Chump and his minions completely out of power in 2028.

I hope we are able to have elections

They were rethinking town halls to avoid backlash from their policies, not for safety.

On that note maybe rethink schools.

Wow, the gun toting #GOP scared of people having guns? Hehe

CHARLIE NAZI KIRK WAS NOT A LAWMAKER YOU FUCKING COWARDS. TEACHERS HAVE TO SHOW UP EVERY FUCKING DAY AND YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT THEM. I am so fucking sick of these entitled mfers. This shit is getting real old.

Why wasn't the shooting of Gabby Gifford a wake up call for GOP? The fact Kirk's outdoor event didn't have security checking/securing roof tops (Just like Trump's so called assassination attempt) has GOP ending indoor town halls? Lame excuse. Truth is the GOP is just tired of being booed.

Still baffles me that this creature won against Cheney.

Did they feel this way after Democrat Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot?

Are you also cancelling in-person schooling?

So they don't want to do their job. Got it. Scared little chicken shit cowards. 🐔

COWARDS

Gee, I guess you’d have to use metal detectors and ban guns! Shocking for the deplorables I know!

What do the two have to do with each other? Were they planning on having Nazi podcasters at the town halls???

Now that’s a receding hairline.

Then I'd say it's time for them to find a different job.

don't hold shit outdoors trump is rarely outdoors anymore you close off and control a space

If your head and heart are in the right place, if you’re prioritizing the kitchen table needs of your constituents over your fear of and threatened intimidation by a wannabe dictator, you have nothing to worry about!