By June 2025, Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered by Vance Boelter, a registered Republican and Trump loyalist. Boelter then tried to kill Senator John Hoffman, leaving him and his wife seriously wounded.
And most recently, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was shot by Tyler Robinson, a young man from a staunch Republican Mormon family. Robinson has no formal party ties but has reportedly adopted the ideology of far-right extremist Nick Fuentes.
So how many attackers from this list are associated with the Democratic Party, progressives, or mainstream leftist groups? The answer: none. The only individual who could be described as Left-leaning is Quintez Brown.
Another white male shooter and we are worried about political leanings when they often don’t matter. A society where we tolerate losing thousands of children to gun deaths and tens of thousands of adults every year. We are not allowed to say the quite part out loud. We can’t fix these problems because of this.