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Right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking on a Utah campus.

Following the shooting, political figures and the public have largely retreated to partisan corners rather than seeking unity.

We are a violent country.

We have the guns and the bodies to prove it.

One of the most recent bodies is Charlie Kirk’s, the right-wing firebrand who was gunned down while speaking on a Utah campus on Wednesday.

Following news of Kirk’s death, I found myself asking the same thing I asked so many times in the past.

“What the hell is wrong with us.”

I asked that question after a gunman killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in June, after a gunman took shots at Donald Trump last year, and after gunmen shot U.S. Rep. Steve Scal

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