It's been 10 years since a white supremacist shot and killed nine people studying the Bible at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. In a statement that shocked many people, relatives of the dead offered their forgiveness to the gunman. A similar opportunity came this month at a memorial for Charlie Kirk in Phoenix.

Kirk's widow, Erika, told the thousands who attended and many more likely watching on television: "I forgive [the shooter] because it was what Christ did, and it is what Charlie would do."

President Trump was having none of it. Instead of echoing Erika's powerful statement, the president chose the low road. He said he disagrees with Erika, hates his opponents and doesn't "want what's best for them." So much for lowering the political temperature.

If you were to take a survey and didn't attach names to those contrasting quotes, which one do you think respondents, even those who are not Christians, would........

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