This week, many people across our country have been shaken by the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. This murder is the latest tragedy in a series of acts of political violence. In June of this year, Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed at their home. Last July, President Trump was shot during a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Sadly, I could go on – there have been attacks on Rep. Gabby Giffords in front of a supermarket, Rep. Steve Scalise during a congressional baseball practice, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, at home by a man who wanted to take the Speaker hostage, and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Political violence is a terrible scourge, a blinking red alarm on whether our democracy can

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