Yesterday as I was out and about with my wife enjoying a steamy hot summer day in my local city. My phone rang so much that it fell out of my side pants pocket. As the phone bounced off the ground the screen lit up with the notification of Former President Trump Grazed by gunfire at Butler, Pennsylvania Rally.
I honestly looked away from the phone, looked back down at it again, and asked myself, could this be real? Forty years ago, was the last assassination attempt of a major political party nominee for the office of the President of the United States of America.
In hearing this news, the viral video went of President Trump being grazed by gunfire. I had searched on Google and there was not one story from a major news outlet about this horrific act.
The images above that I personally selected for this post point to defining moments in American political history that go back decades. The Assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln, President John F. Kennedy, (Sen) Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald W. Reagan and as of yesterday, Donald J. Trump.
The level of hatred towards a man and his vision for America that one person a twenty-year-old decides to perform such a horrible and cowardly act to insight fear and try to silence political points of view and our political process as a whole.
Other Political Leaders, you have a responsibility to denounce any and all political violence against anyone.
Media outlets and organizations you have the most important role in much of the acts of yesterday’s violence. When you turn on a streaming service and day after day spout the same hatred and end of the nation theory’s you are directly enabling actions like this to occur.
American politics and elections should be battled out in the voting booths and the debate nights. Not on rooftops with rifles!
In America we are losing the fundamental ideal that all people are entitled to their own beliefs and opinions and that is the right of every American. Our inability to connect with each other and engage in productive dialogue where none walks away hating the other person or wishes that person ill.
If we are to remain a functioning American Republic we must look past the divide and seek the vison our founders envisioned for the pursuit of happiness for every American whether you agree or disagree with your neighbor.
Our thoughts and prayers are with President Donald J. Trump and his family during this horrible and catastrophic moment in American History.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14, King James Version
