“I will tell you that the last thing you want is to see multiple law enforcement officials with guns drawn pointing at my parents and thinking that something happened,” the former South Carolina governor told NBC.
It’s been in the headlines recently because of a spate of incidents involving public officials.
When prominent public officials are victims of swatting, one can’t always prove a cause-and-effect relationship between inflammatory rhetoric posted online or delivered during a speech and a caller’s reckless false emergency call to 911.
We need tougher laws to protect public servants, and some states are increasing penalties for perpetrators of swatting.
Swatting increases the likeliness of inadvertent harm to the public by the very people whose job it is to protect us.
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