When I heard the news that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been shot, it brought me back to a troubling day in 1981 when I first heard that the newly elected Ronald Reagan had been shot, which then morphed into the day I heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.
President Reagan survived the attempt on his life, but we’ve lost a lot …
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