Cantor later said.

In an interview broadcast on ABC Sunday, Lee refused to follow Cantor's lead.

"The shooter wins if we, who’ve been elected, change what we do just because of what he did," Lee told ABC.

And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may agree.

Speaking to Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday about whether Republicans would force a shut down of the government if Democrats didn't agree to deep spending cuts, McConnell used some violent imagery of his own.

"Nobody is going to put a gun to anybody's head here," he said.