""What we see-and have seen so many times before-after acts of political violence: this sense of regret, this sense of 'We need to pull it back; this is going too far,'""
""You heard a lot of people say that this week on Democratic and Republican messaging-but not in the way that's necessarily going to change things in an enduring way.""
Within hours of reports of Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah this week, people posted reactions across social media platforms. Many responses mirrored longstanding responses to political violence, characterized by expressions of regret and appeals to 'pull it back' as events escalate. Public messaging from both Democratic and Republican sources included similar calls for restraint. Those calls, however, lacked indications of producing durable changes in behavior or norms. The pattern of quick condemnation followed by limited structural response highlights persistent challenges in addressing and reducing political violence in the United States.
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