And I thought, how appropriate, not just for Charlie, but for all the political violence that is happening. Minnesota, the President being shot. Going back to Steve Scalise, it is just a tragedy for our nation that We've had this I would call epidemic of political shootings. Shootings and death in general, of course, are awful. Political shootings are an attempt to squash political discourse by one person, to tell the rest of the nation, you can't talk, you have to be silent and I'm going to silence you. (00:18–00:24)
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