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ARTICLE VIEW:
Charlie Kirk’s murder is the latest example of violence tearing
through American politics
By Chris Boyette, CNN
Updated:
4:00 AM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025
Source: CNN
The of conservative activist this week on a Utah college campus marks
the latest example of violence tearing through American politics across
centuries and the ideological spectrum.
While history tends to highlight presidential assassinations, the
targeting of national figures like and and, more recently, and public
has upended the tenor and the terms of democratic debate in a country
with than people.
Through the first half of 2025, the US saw some 150 politically
motivated attacks, said Michael Jensen, a University of Maryland who
tracks terrorism incidents. That’s nearly twice as many as the same
period last year – a spike he said reflects growing discontent with
the political system and its policies.
“What we’re witnessing right now is not the product of a single
group or ideology but perhaps evidence of growing widespread civil
unrest,” Jensen said Thursday.
Here are some cases:
June 14, 2025
A masked man dressed as a police officer went to the home of the
Minnesota House of Representatives’ top Democrat and fatally shot
state and her husband as police tried to stop what Democratic Gov. Tim
Walz later called “.”
The same man had just shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. John
Hoffman and his wife at their home, police said. A list found in the
gunman’s abandoned car largely included names of Democrats and
figures with ties to Planned Parenthood or the abortion rights
movement, including Rep. and Sen. .
After a nearly , police captured a suspect, who has to six federal
charges, including stalking and murder, which could carry the . He is a
conservative who for Republican President Donald Trump and strongly
opposed abortion rights, a friend told CNN. are taking a back seat for
now.
April 13, 2025
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – with his wife, their four children,
two dogs and another family – were forced to flee after someone threw
into the governor’s mansion, severely damaging the home hours after
the family hosted a Passover dinner.
The suspect said he in part because of what he believed were
Shapiro’s views on the war in Gaza, search warrants show. The
Pennsylvania man faces seven charges, including attempted homicide,
burglary, attempted assault and arson.
September 15, 2024
A man was soon after a rifle was in the bushes along the perimeter of
the Trump International Golf Club in Florida while Trump, campaigning
for a second term, was playing. The , who owns a small business in
Hawaii, was for trying to kill Trump, among other federal charges. His
trial .
July 13, 2024
A young Pennsylvania man at Trump during a re-election rally in the
state, injuring the presidential candidate, wounding two rally
attendees and killing another. Secret Service agents killed the gunman
at the scene.
October 28, 2022
A man who reportedly of people he believed were “systematically and
deliberately” destroying American freedom and liberty broke into the
San Francisco of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, planning to kidnap and
hurt her, authorities said.
But she was not home, and he instead attacked the Democrat’s husband,
Paul Pelosi, , fracturing his skull and knocking him unconscious.
The assailant was on state charges to life in prison without the
possibility of parole and in a federal case to 30 years for assault and
20 years for attempted kidnapping, with the sentences running
concurrently.
June 8, 2022
Just after 1 a.m., a man near the Maryland home of Supreme Court
Justice , a Trump nominee, called 911 to say he was having suicidal
thoughts and had a firearm in his suitcase, a states. The man said he
had traveled from California to kill “a specific United States
Supreme Court Justice,” an FBI affidavit says.
The man was upset about the high court’s overturning Roe v. Wade and
feared the conservative judge would “side with Second Amendment
decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” the affidavit says. He
also was a tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol, two magazines,
ammunition, pepper spray and zip ties, the FBI said.
The man was arrested and charged with attempting or threatening to
kidnap or murder a US judge. He to attempted murder of a Supreme Court
justice and is due to be sentenced October 3.
January 6, 2021
Minutes after a fiery speech by Trump filled with and a call to his
followers to march to the US Capitol and “fight like hell,”
thousands as Congress gathered to certify Democratic former Vice
President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Captured on live television, rioters the Capitol and breached the
Senate floor.
Five people and 140 police officers were injured before the
insurrection was quelled. Trump nearly every convicted rioter and asked
the federal court in Washington, DC, to dismiss pending cases. A second
House subcommittee is the security disaster after a first Trump’s
efforts to overturn the 2020 election led to the violence.
October 2020
were by the FBI and state police and charged in connection with a plot
to , Gretchen Whitmer, and take over the state government. They were
angry at Whitmer over restrictions she put into place to mitigate the
spread of , court records show.
Six were on federal charges, and eight were charged at the state level.
Nine pleaded guilty or were in the case, with several getting lengthy
prison sentences.
November 3, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul was attacked by a neighbor and former colleague as he
mowed the lawn at his home in Kentucky. The Republican suffered , he
said.
The neighbor, who denied any political motivations in the attack, to
assaulting a member of Congress was sentenced to behind bars. Paul also
sued the man and was more than $580,000.
June 14, 2017
Rep. Steve Scalise, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist and a member of
the Capitol police were shot in Alexandria, Virginia, during for a
charity baseball game.
At least six people, including Scalise and Rep. Roger Williams, were
hospitalized. The gunman died after a shootout with authorities.
Scalise’s internal organs were damaged, and he underwent surgeries,
hospital staff said, before recovering and to Congress.
January 8, 2011
Rep. suffered a serious brain injury when a man shot her point-blank in
the head while she met with constituents outside a grocery store near
Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed in the attack and 13 wounded.
Giffords, a Democrat, was the main target, authorities said.
The shooter pleaded guilty to 19 charges in exchange for the government
not seeking the death penalty. He was to seven consecutive life terms
plus 140 years, with no possibility of parole.
2011-2014
An Iraq War veteran who in 2014 jumped the White House fence and ran
into the building with a knife was sentenced to 17 months in . Another
man who tried a year earlier to filled with knives and bullets into a
White House security gate a 35-month prison sentence.
And after shots were fired at the White House in 2011, an Idaho man
admitted to trying to kill Democratic President Barack Obama and was to
25 years in prison.
1981-2005
After a grenade thrown toward GOP President in 2005 in Eastern Europe
failed to detonate, a Georgian citizen was convicted and sentenced to
life in prison.
In another case of bullets fired at the White House, a Colorado man was
found guilty of the attempted assassination of Democrat in 1994 and to
40 years in prison.
Another overseas plot – to kill former Republican President in 1993
in Kuwait – was foiled, with a Kuwaiti court 13 defendants of related
crimes and sentencing some to death.
And Republican Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton in Washington, DC,
after giving a speech.
The gunman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent decades
at a mental hospital before he was released in 2016 and from court
restrictions in 2022.
All presidents have faced threats, and all former presidents also get
lifetime protection.
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