When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, my elementary school sent us home. I was in the third grade. My mom was crying. She came from a Republican family. But JFK was America’s president – our president.

In that spirit, after the public assassination of Charlie Kirk on Nov. 10, many opponents reacted in horror and in a spirit of national unity. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, spoke of how he and Kirk “strongly disagreed on almost every issue.”

Then Sanders gave an eloquent statement about how our political system works: “A free and democratic society, which is what America is supposed to be about, depends upon the basic premise that people can speak out, organize, and take part in public life without fear, without worrying that they might be killed, injure

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