Metal detectors

Just to be clear. If you're in the business of telling people they need to "tone down the rhetoric" because a crazy person did something awful, you're really just working for the people who want to squash legitimate dissent.

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) -- The shooting of a congresswoman and rising tempers along the Gulf Coast have prompted increased security for meetings between BP's oil spill claims czar and residents seeking compensation.