As if his support for the armed insurrection of 1/6 wasn't convincing enough, Kevin McCarthy announces his violent tendencies to the world

The fact that violence is something McCarthy thinks is so funny that it should be joked about proves two things:

1. There's a reason that Gosar, Biggs, et. al. refer to him as "Leader".

2. Keeping the House controlled by Democrats is imperative.

From CNN -

McCarthy jokes 'it will be hard not to hit' Pelosi with gavel if he becomes House speaker

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked at a Saturday night event that it "will be hard not to hit" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel if Republicans take control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms and he becomes speaker.

"I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it," McCarthy said in audio posted to Twitter by a Main Street Nashville reporter.

Of course, McCarthy was only promising to do what the insurrectionists wanted to do anyway.

From the Atlantic -

It Was Supposed to Be So Much Worse

On the West Lawn of the Capitol Wednesday, a man in a pom-pom beanie clamored for blood. “Execute the traitors!” he shouted into a megaphone. “I wanna see executions!”

The man got the deaths he wanted, if not the executions. Four rioters died as a result of Wednesday’s insurrection at the Capitol.* Some of them had bigger plans too: Before the protest, pro-Trump radicals had posted online about their intentions to kill Vice President Mike Pence. They brought zip ties and wore Kevlar vests. Rioters erected a wooden gallows next to the Capitol Reflecting Pool, and police discovered two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill.