Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said “our leaders” had to stop the “very intense rhetoric,” while discussing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA founder at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
Klobuchar said, “It’s not about how I’m doing. It’s my state and we did not just didn’t lose Melissa and the other legislator shot and Melissa’s husband, we also had all those kids shot in that church just a few weeks ago. And while that wasn’t political victims, they were eight and ten year olds, that was a political manifesto that was left from that shooter, including just all purpose hate at Hispanics and blacks and President Trump. And it was just across the board. So it has made me think a lot about what’s going on right now. Some of it is guns, you saw an assault weapon. A lot of it’s guns used in the church in this case, not an assault weapon. But it’s also about the hate that we see online and how people are imitating these crimes and what triggers them. And I think our country and our leaders have to take a long look at what’s going on right now and make a lot of changes in how they’re talking to people.”
She added, “There are some people who are much more into this very intense rhetoric than others. They’re going to have to look at it. I’m not going to name names right now, but there are clearly that is going on. Then you have got the platforms themselves that allow misinformation, that allow hate speech.”
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