Initial expressions of grief and shock were overtaken by open calls for reckoning and vengeance, as some proclaimed the country was on the brink of civil war.
Charlie Kirk
(1993-2025)
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Initial expressions of grief and shock were overtaken by open calls for reckoning and vengeance, as some proclaimed the country was on the brink of civil war.
By Richard FaussetKen Bensinger and Alan Feuer
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