Colleges and universities are designed to be bastions of free speech, including speech that we may find uncomfortable or even abhorrent.

It’s no accident that Allan Hancock College’s mission statement commits to an “inclusive learning environment” that welcomes diversity of opinion.

The horrific shooting of a Republican podcaster and influencer on a university campus strikes a blow against the very nature of what we stand for.

Since January of this year, there have been at least two dozen shootings on college campuses, and political violence seems to be growing in ways we haven’t seen in half a century.

Just the past year has seen two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate, an assault on the husband of a congressional leader, and the execution of two Democratic state legisl

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