Washington (AP) – The deadly shootout of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah had a special response for public personalities who themselves experienced political violence.
Kirk, who worked as the managing director and co -founder of the youth organization Turning Point USA, often appeared on College Campus and other environments and was politically dialogue in public environments.
Several leaders who survived public attacks or have brought family members victim to the cross -party conviction of the attack on Kirk.
Nancy Pelosi
The husband of the former House Speaker was seriously injured by a man with a hammer in her house in California in 2022, of whom the authorities believe in conspiracy theories.
Pelosi, a democrat, published: “The terrible shootout at Utah Valley University is reprehensible today. Political violence has absolutely no place in our nation.”
Donald Trump
The president suffered a minor ear injury when he was shot last year in a campaign event. He was also the goal of a failed attempt at assassination at the Golf in Florida. He had a close relationship with Kirk and announced his death on Wednesday on his social side of truth.
Trump described Kirk on Truth Social as a “great guy from top to bottom. God bless him!”
He also wrote: “Nobody understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States better than Charlie.”
Gabrielle Giffords
The former US representative, a democrat, suffered a sedate brain injury from a shootout from 2011 when he met with her voters in a shopping center in her congress district in Arizona. She survived and took up the cause of the fight against gun violence.
Giffords posted on social media that she was “horrified” to hear from Kirk’s shooting.
“Democratic societies will always have political differences of opinion,” she wrote, “but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts these disagreements with violence.”
Steve Skalisse
The leader of the Republican of Louisiana in the House of the House of Representatives was shot for a baseball game for charity organizations in the Virginia suburbs in the Virginia suburbs. The man who attacked the scalis had symptoms against Trump and Republicans and was later fatally shot by the police.
Scalisene asked the people on the social media platform X, “Please pray with me for Charlie Kirk after this senseless action.”
Josh Shapiro
The governor of Pennsylvania, a democrat and potential national candidate, was evacuated with his family from the governor’s villa at the beginning of this year after a man had broken into the building and a fire was set up that caused considerable damage.
“We have to speak with moral clarity,” wrote Shapiro about X.
Gretchen Whitmer
The Michigan governor, a democrat, was the subject of a failed kidnapping order of right-wing extremists who hoped to ignite a civil war. Two men were arrested for their attempt from 2020 to kidnap the governor during their first term.
“We should all come together to defend ourselves against all forms of political violence,” wrote Whitmer on social media.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The secretary for health and human services seemed to take into account the losses of his family when he reacted to Kirk’s murder. Kennedy’s father, for whom he was called, was murdered in 1968 when he was looking for the nomination of the democratic president. Kennedy Sr. was a pronounced critic of the Vietnam War and an advocate of civil rights legislation as a Attorney General during the presidency of his brother and after John F. Kennedy’s murder in 1963.
“Once again, a ball has silenced the most eloquent truth residents of an era,” wrote Kennedy on social media. He called Kirk a “relentless and brave crusader for freedom of speech”.
