Re: “Trump shot at Pennsylvania rally” [July 14, A1]:
Regardless of the particulars in regards to the assassination try in opposition to former President Donald Trump, there’s one factor about which we will be sure: There is no such thing as a room for political violence within the U.S. From Lincoln’s assassination to the dying toll from political violence within the Sixties (John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy) to the taking pictures of President Ronald Reagan and White Home Press Secretary James Brady in 1981, to final weekend’s haunting specter, political violence has at all times lessened us.
We’re a rustic constructed on our variations. My neighbors, co-workers and buddies could effectively vote otherwise than I do. That is our power. Political violence weakens and divides us.
That is no time for morbid humor or escalating rhetoric. It’s a time for reflection and unity; a time to achieve for the higher angels of our nature referred to as upon by President Abraham Lincoln. Our very republic relies on it.
David Shoultz, Seattle
