On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around before they arrived. It was a hoax – a swatting call at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia residence. Five days later, GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Florida was swatted. The wave of false alarms about shootings and violence continued to assail high-level government officials: the federal judge overseeing Tr...