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MY TURN: 'Who is They?'

by BARBARA OSTIPWKO / Guest Opinion
| September 26, 2025 1:00 AM

JD Vance said “they” shot Charlie Kirk. Before the gunman was even found, the president said the "radical left" did it. To date, no police or FBI official has said either of those things. In fact, no group has been implicated in any way. The act of a single human being should not result in the hate of an entire group. Those statements are political propaganda designed to divide us and make us less human.

When the politicians try to incite violence through blame, the best thing to do is to go to the research. According to a 50-year research study conducted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, 2%, or 65 politically motivated deaths, were committed by people who lean left. 

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