Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
The April 25, 2026 shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — in which a 31-year-old California man armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives charged a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton — immediately became fuel for partisan recrimination over political rhetoric. A review of the facts, the rhetoric on both sides, the rising statistical trajectory of threats against officials, and the legal limits on policing speech reveals a familiar pattern: after each act of political violence, both parties blame the other's words while taking no legislative action to address the underlying problem.