Charlie Kirk's death raises fears of 'beginning of a darker chapter' for US violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Authorities said he had written on gun casings phrases common to online gaming communities.
47% : " Braniff, of PERIL, led the federal government's Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships until March, when he resigned in protest over staff cuts.
46% : On Friday, on a Fox program, Trump was asked how to fix the country, given there were radicals on the right as well.
45% : A host of factors play into the rise of political violence, and the public's support for said violence, which has been increasing in surveys over the past year.
44% : " How politicians of all political backgrounds respond to incidents of political violence, no matter the motive, can help cool the rhetoric or inflame it. Condemning the violence is helpful, Pate said, but the context of those condemnations matters.
41% : Regardless of his political aims, and before a shooter was publicly identified, prominent voices on the right declared war, and Trump vowed to go after the "radical left".
40% : If you zoom out over time, political violence is more commonly done by the far right, Baumgartner said, but today's violent actors are "much more ideologically diffuse, and they don't strictly adhere to a single ideology".
37% : The killing of a high-profile Trump ally at a public event on a Utah college campus this week could serve as a turning point for political violence - but it's not clear in which direction.
35% : Social media and widespread availability of lethal weapons make this era more dangerous than the 1960s - and the violence may increase Charlie Kirk's killing came amid a rise in political violence in the US, the kind now so frequent that it moves swiftly out of news cycles it would once have dominated.
30% : "I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less," Trump said.
21% : From the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump during his campaign last year to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's home burnt in an arson attack in April and the Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband gunned down by a man dressed as a police officer in June, to name a few.
21% : Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history?" Those who study political violence say the current moment looks similar to the US in the 1960s, when assassins killed John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr amid a time of massive social change and backlash.

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