On the afternoon that right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was murdered, three teenagers, including the shooter, were reported to be in critical condition following a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado. The only difference between these two awful events is that we’ve become numb to gun violence aimed at our children. of recent incidents involving political violence:Acts of political extremism are surfacing with alarming regularity in this country. Each of the incidents were different, but together they paint an unsettling portrait: political violence is increasingly becoming the norm in America. So is the ongoing epidemic of school shootings — not to mention mass gun violence in general.