Former President Barack Obama addressed political violence in the United States on Tuesday night, telling a group in Pennsylvania that the country is "at an inflection point."

The former president addressed the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attacks on two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers that left speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman and her husband dead, and another state representative and his wife severely injured. He called both incidents "horrific" and "a tragedy."

Obama said that political violence "is not new" and "has happened at certain periods in" U.S. history, but is "anathema to what it means to be a democratic country."

"There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, the central premise of our democratic system is that we have

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