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You can't know that a threat isn't empty until it's too late.

Or you could realize a sitting state senator in the chambers of their congress literally has no means of harming them besides their fists due to the security force of the state?

How do you know they didn’t bring a gun? There’s no reason to feel safe around someone who recently made a credible murder threat.

There were rumors he wanted to bring his gun to the capitol, which is apparently legal. No, I don't think he would have actually done anything, but it's too bad he couldn't have been dealt with in a fair and calm way in order to ensure her concerns had been assuaged.

It was kind of a maddening sideshow: in normal times, he would have been reprimanded in some way, and she would have been made to feel safe, but they were in a crazy rush to finish.

> she would have been made to feel safe

Personally, I find it interesting that the focus here is on her feeling safe, and not actually being safe - because she already was.

Only with the benefit of hindsight. She did not know if she was safe then.

Her decision on whether to stay is, of course, based on her assessment of her own safety. Making it safer is one way to make her feel safer.

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