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SEIU receives phone call threatening gun violence over its health care reform advocacy.

The Service Employees International Union, which supports health care reform, received a call today falsely accusing it of engaging in “thuggish violent tactics” and claiming that if the union does not stop disagreeing with reform’s opponents, “y’all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment.” Listen here:

Amazingly, after threatening to shoot SEIU’s members, the caller concludes by saying “stop the violence.”

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