In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of media personality and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, many people on both sides of the aisle asked “When is enough enough?”

“We will never forget this,” a journalist wrote on social media. “This should have never happened,” wrote a politician. “We must never let this happen again,” an influencer echoed.

But the truth is that our country is very good at forgetting tragedies — even political assassinations fade from today’s news cycle and public discourse too quickly. Both the killing of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as the two attempts on President Trump’s life, illustrate this too — a sign of how numb we’ve all become.

So what does “never” mean? What is it that we are calling on one another

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