Posted on 09/14/2025 5:30:56 PM PDT by Libloather
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Republicans on Sunday criticized some Democrats, suggesting language used by them contributed to Kirk's killing, claims that Democrats rejected.
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump's threats that his administration would go after the "radical left" that he blamed for political violence.
"I want to be really clear about this. This is an example of something that is hurting," Buttigieg said. "We are not getting the leadership that we need to bring this country together from the White House."
"The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down on individuals or groups not because of violence, but because they challenge the government politically," he said. "We need to have free and open political debate and a healthy political process in this country."
Lawmakers did agree on the need for social media companies to do a better job regulating content circulating online -- specifically for children -- and criticized the ways in which videos of Kirk's killing were widespread.
"The ways in which folks are then taking the horrific images of these incidents and propagating them on the internet adds fuel to the fire we can and should pass bills," Coons said on CBS, advocating for Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
Lankford said social media algorithms push people to the extreme.
"The algorithm in social media is always pushing who is the angriest, who is the loudest, who says the craziest thing. That's what gets repeated over and over and over again," he said.
Cox blamed social media for helping to put the country into the "dark place" it's in and suggested a way out of it.
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Of course they do. They’re the far left.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”-Obama
Kirk’s sharp wit and tongue was too much for them, so he was shot.
“”When the debate is lost, slander(and murder) becomes the tool of the loser.”— Aristotle
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