As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return.

Other media outlets did a roll call of recent shooting tragedies that included the June killings of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the attempted murders of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. The school shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado occurred less than an hour after Kirk was brutally gunned down, and we are barely two weeks removed from the Church of the Annunciation shooting in Minneapolis that killed two children.

The murder of Kirk has brought abo

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