“It’s our responsibility, whether we’re Democrats or Republicans, whether we agree or disagree, to remember we’re Americans first, and that words have an impact,” Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said after a crazed gunman opened fire on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others at a open event with constituents in Tucson, Arizona. “We don’t know when the words we’ve chosen will send someone whose psyche is frayed to begin with, over the edge.”

The Florida congresswoman also called for “a new tone of civility in our public discourse,” according to cbs12.com:

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