"Within minutes of Kirk's death, with the assassin still on the loose and with no proof of what the shooter's motives were, Trump and his allies declared that now was the time to use the full force of the state to, according to at least some of Trump's more outspoken supporters, eradicate the leftist menace. Some talked of a civil war; others of the need to "exterminate" people they see as "anarcho-terrorists.""
"There have been several hundred mass shootings already this year in the United States, and, as I write this, according to the Gun Violence Archive, 15 of those have occurred in the 13 days following the events in Minneapolis. None of these hundreds of mass shootings, with the singular exception of the Minneapolis atrocity, have led the GOP or Trump to propose meaningful gun-contro"
A Catholic school mass shooting in Minneapolis and the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in Utah prompted immediate political responses. The Department of Justice sought to classify transgender Americans as mentally ill and thus ineligible for gun ownership after the Minneapolis killings. Within minutes of Kirk's killing, Trump and his allies urged use of state power and accused the left of fomenting violence without providing evidence, while some supporters called for eradication and spoke of civil war. Hundreds of mass shootings have occurred this year, but only the Minneapolis attack prompted significant GOP proposals.
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