Wouldn't bother me if Nancy decided to raise the fine to $100,000

[bluestarone]

After third offense with the Metal detectors!!

[SheltieLover]

1. Great idea!

They should be jailed & charged, then expelled from Congress, imo.

They know, or should know, better!

Like oppositionally defiant children.

[electric_blue68]

2. Me like! 😁👍 Effing gun toting Repugs! 😠🤬

[Irish_Dem]

3. Going to be an interesting power struggle. My money is on Nancy.

I cannot wait to see this play out.

Right now we are in the "give the idiot child enough rope to hang herself" stage.

[Blue Owl]

4. K&R

[lpbk2713]

5. Call it a stupidity tax.

...

[bluestarone]

6. YEPPERS!!!!

[world wide wally]

7. But Boeberts restaurant isn't worth that much

(in spite of her prices)

[bluestarone]

8. Looking like $00000000

Salary for her!

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. Sure, ratchet up the scale of fines.

But at some point, if you want to carry a weapon into a place where ideas are emotionally conveyed and received, we need to omit the tools of intimidation. And this is what the guns are.....a symbol of intimidation. Watch your words because I am packing. Fuck that, guns not needed nor desired in the people's Congress.

[hunter]

18. My failure in life, or maybe my life itself, I owe to the fact I've never been intimidated by guns.

It's possible I inherited that from my mom's pacifist family.

I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. The fear of life are in those that need to pack. nt

[onecaliberal]

10. Did she try to go around the metal detector?

[bluestarone]

11. Heard she went through BUT

Wouldn't stop.

[onecaliberal]

12. Why isn't this fucker arrested?

[bluestarone]

13. Been answered here before

NO CAN DO!

[onecaliberal]

16. Then take the fucking metal detector down if you're going to let the witch in with it anyway.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Article I, Section 6 ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.

[NYC Liberal]

21. But you can prevent them from entering and punish them.

Article I, Section 5 allows members to be punished for “disorderly behavior”

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. Preventing them from entering is arrest. The fine is the punishment.

[onecaliberal]

24. More bullshit from 2 year old brains in adult bodies.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. Yup. I would love to see them expelled for their actions, but it's a long hope.

[NYC Liberal]

30. No it isn't. Being denied entry to a building isn't arrest.

Being arrested is being involuntarily detained and restricted from leaving.

[dustyscamp]

14. They will just refuse to pay the fine

[bluestarone]

15. Gets deducted from their salary!

[xmas74]

28. It's directly deducted from their salary.

That way they can't fundraise for someone else to pay it.

[FakeNoose]

17. Is there a metal detector installed at the Senate chamber door too?

It really needs to be done in both chambers, I hope they've considered this.

On second thought, why aren't there metal detectors installed at every outside entrance? Why only the chambers, when legislators are frequently seen walking through the Capitol but outside the chambers? Congressmen and Senators are in equal danger in the hallways, if people have not been checked for weapons.

[Hotler]

23. Fines don't work unless they're enforced.

Make them do a random drug test. If they're hot take their gun.

[Montauk6]

26. Are those enforceable fines?

If so, penalties and interest should be applied to any scofflaws as well.

[Ferryboat]

27. No fines levied until

Rules are voted on next month.

Hope they are retroactive.

[mtnsnake]

29. Shock therapy

If the metal detector finds that they're packing, an automatic bolt of electricity goes straight to the metallic source and knocks them flat on their ass.