Re: “Trump shot at Pennsylvania rally” [July 14, A1]:
Regardless of the particulars in regards to the assassination try towards former President Donald Trump, there’s one factor about which we will be sure: There isn’t any 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 capturing 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 mates could nicely vote otherwise than I do. That is our energy. 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 known as upon by President Abraham Lincoln. Our very republic is determined by it.
David Shoultz, Seattle