Pope Leo XIV today expressed his condolences for Charlie Kirk and said that he is 'praying for the widow of Mr. Kirk and his children'
He made the remarks to US Ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch. Ambassador Burch also gave the pope a birthday cake from Chicago. The Holy Father turns 70 years young. Ad moltus anos…
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Nice that President Trump sent a real Catholic to the Holy See unlike Biden who sent fake "catholics." K is despondent!
Concur with TJM.
This author, John Kass, nails it. He was a member of the editorial board and opinion writer for the Chicago Tribune for most of his career and like most sane people, a former Democrat. Here is what he has to say about the Democratic Party and its hardcore leftwing assassination culture. A good read:
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-assassination-culture-killed-charlie-kirk/
Well the Uk only had one prime minister assassinated whereas USA had four presidents plus one failed attempt
It is difficult to divine where American politics goes from here, but the trajectory is bleak.
Violence begets violence. Increasingly divisive rhetoric, fuelled by social media echo chambers and easy access to firearms, leads to raw nerves and a heightened potential for bloodshed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2z9z4m22ro.amp
The issue of extremist-related mass killings is of growing concern and is the subject of a special section of this report. From the 1970s through the 2000s, domestic extremist-related mass killings were relatively uncommon. However, over the past 12 years, their number has greatly increased. Most of these mass killings were committed by right-wing extremists, but left-wing and domestic Islamist extremists were also responsible for incidents. The Center on Extremism has identified 62 extremist-connected mass killing incidents since 1970, with 46 of them being ideologically motivated. Disturbingly, more than half (26, or 57%) of the ideological mass killings have occurred within the past 12 years. Of particular concern in recent years are shootings inspired by white supremacist “accelerationist” propaganda urging such attacks.
In 2022, 18 of the 25 extremist-related murders appear to have been committed in whole or part for ideological motives, while the remaining seven murders either have no clear motive or were committed for a non-ideological motive.
All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, who typically commit most such killings each year but only occasionally are responsible for all (the last time this occurred was 2012). Left-wing extremists engage in violence ranging from assaults to fire-bombings and arsons, but since the late 1980s have not often targeted people with deadly violence. The same cannot be said for domestic Islamist extremists, but deadly incidents linked to Islamist extremism have decreased significantly in the U.S. over the past five years.
White supremacists commit the greatest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high: 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists. Again, this is primarily due to mass shootings. Only one of the murders was committed by a right-wing anti-government extremist—the lowest number since 2017.
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