Republicans Want To Stop Swatting But Not Gun Violence!

Trolls call the law to cause havoc. Republicans want an end to it.

The Republican Party wants to ban

1. Abortions
2. Gay marriage 
3. Critical race theory
4. Gender affirming treatment 
5. Honing
6. Texting while driving
7. Laws removing Confederate memorials
8. Swatting calls

The Republican Party want to push for

1. Mandatory ID requirements to vote
2. Work requirements to get food and home assistance 
3. Drug screening to get food and home assistance 
4. Jailing doctors and aids who assist in abortion
5. Requirements to certify election results if they believe there's fraud
6. Removing President Joe Biden and Democrats from ballots
7. Partisan gerrymandering 
8. Religious freedom [Christian and Jewish supremacy]
9. Jailing anti-Israeli protesters and any boycotts of Israel
10. Ending birthright citizenship to children of immigrants
11. Expanding the Supreme Court through elimination of the filibuster
12. Outlawing pornography
13. Bans on transgender women playing women's sports
14. Building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexican sovereignties
15. Designate Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Greenpeace as terrorists
16. More schools to have armed teachers and security
17. More charter and private schools to shrink public schools 
18. Mass deportation of immigrants
19. Repealing of the Affordable Care Act 
20. Unitary presidential powers giving the president ultimate rule
21. Pulling out of the United Nations and World Health Organization
22. Ending requirements to purchase firearms

Not anything on the agenda deals with stopping the No. 1 problem in the United States.

Gun violence.

We close out this year with Republicans fuming over possible domestic and foreign actors swatting their homes. The police shown up to the home of insufferable member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and boyfriend Right Side Broadcasting media Brian Glenn multiple times thanks to a swatting call.

Now she and Republicans are planning on outlawing it.

Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed, among other things.

Democrats have proposed it but it was denied by Republicans on the grounds, well... "you know it's a First Amendment issue" and "We don't believe you" mantra.

A 2015 bipartisan bill in Congress sponsored by now House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) and then Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) made swatting a federal crime with increased penalties. Congresswoman Clark wrote an op-ed in The Hill saying that 2.5 million cases of cyberstalking between 2010 and 2013 had only resulted in 10 cases prosecuted, although a source for this was not provided. As revenge for the bill, an anonymous caller fraudulently called police to Rep. Clark's house on January 31, 2016.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) was swatted when he was then a California state senator and advocated for swatting to be illegal.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost was also swatted this year.

Greene confirmed that the incident on Christmas disrupted her and made her fearful. LLP

The Rome (Georgia) Police Department quickly verified that the call was a hoax and didn't send officers to the house, department spokesperson Kelly Madden said.

"I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn't have to deal with this," Greene wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jared Moskovitz (D-FL). The one time two insufferable lawmakers get along. Moskovitz calls himself the Smurf.

A man in New York called the Georgia suicide hotline just before 11 a.m. Monday, claiming he'd shot his girlfriend at the address of Greene's home and was going to kill himself next, Madden said. The call was quickly transferred to police when suicide hotline responders recognized the Georgia congresswoman's address.

The department said it contacted Greene's private security detail to confirm she was safe and that there was no emergency at her residence. The call was then determined to be a swatting attempt, so the police response was canceled en route, Madden explained.

"We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond," she said. "Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on."

The congresswoman, who represents the cities of Rome, Dalton and Calhoun in northwest Georgia, spent her first term stripped of committee assignments by the former House Democratic majority over racist comments, her embrace of conspiracy theories and her past endorsement of violence against Democratic officials. She has since gained more influence under the House's current Republican leadership and continues to be a firebrand for the far-right.

Greene's statement that she has been the target of roughly eight swatting attempts is accurate, Madden said. Past calls claimed that dead bodies had been found in the bath tub and in other areas of her home, which is located about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta. Police also responded last year to false reports of shootings outside her residence.

The department said it sent officers to the house in response to those prior incidents but has since formed a close working relationship with Greene's security detail, which enables officers to better assess the threat level. The criminal investigations division is working to identify Monday's caller and build a case, Madden said.

Another New York man was sentenced to three months in prison in August for making threatening phone calls to Greene's Washington, D.C., office.

Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) said in a post on X that he was also targeted by a swatting attempt on Christmas Day. The Cayuga County Sheriff's office said it received a false report of a shooting at the congressman's home in central New York and sent officers to confirm that there was no present danger. Sheriff Brian Schenck didn't immediately respond to phone messages seeking further details.

"Our home was swatted this afternoon," Williams wrote. "Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving. They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!"