Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that "every American is harmed" by the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA is survived by his wife, Erika, and their two children.

"It's not just visible public figures who have reason to fear from this season, this era of political violence, it's every American because every American is harmed by this," Buttigieg told NBC News' Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press." "It's an attack on an individual and an attack on a country whose entire purpose, entire way of being is that we can resolve what we need to resolve through a political process."

Kirk's slaying has been met with conde

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