[U: Read Some Real Books -- Step Away From The News, For Tonight...] Just Listen To Sen. Mark Kelly (Whose Spouse, A US Rep., Was Shot In A 2011 Assassination Attempt)

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, who represented Charlie Kirk in Congress, told CNN today that lawmakers need to “lower the temperature. . . .”

. . .“Everybody needs to lower the temperature,” the Arizona lawmaker told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “Outfront.” “I’ve heard things said by my Democratic colleagues that are not helpful. I’ve heard things said by my Republican colleagues. And I think it’s important for people to understand, especially when they are in leadership positions, that your words have consequences.”

Kelly also stressed that politicians on both sides of the aisle should be careful with their rhetoric as it can incite political violence. “Political rhetoric. . . from both sides often gets out of hand and it incites people to do things like this,” Kelly said. “And I think it’s, you know, so important in times like this when we all take a step back and think about, you know, our words and the consequences of them, you know, from both sides of the political spectrum. . . .”

Kelly -- whose wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, was shot while meeting with constituents in 2011 -- went on to say that Kirk “had every right to be out there.”

“It’s his First Amendment rights, speaking to kids at a university, and his life is ended because of this,” Kelly added. “This isn’t who we should be. This is never the answer. . . .”

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