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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