As a Twin Cities resident, I sadly have been aware of how these mass shootings and assassinations can hit very close to home given the murder of state Rep. Melissa Hortman in June in a Twin Cities suburb and the horrific massacre of an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old who were in mass at their Catholic school in Minneapolis.
The sad truth, I fear, is that people do not understand how horrible such tragedies are until they see them firsthand.
So, even though I disagreed with the politics of Charlie Kirk, my sympathies are with all those spectators at Utah Valley University who had to see and deal with such a deplorable event as the murder of Charlie Kirk. From Minnesota, stay strong.
William Cory Labovitch, West Saint Paul, Minnesota
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