The killing of far-right media figure Charlie Kirk is yet another chapter in the increasing political violence in the US over the past decade.

Kirk, the 31-year-old head of the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA, was shot by an unknown gunman on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was pronounced dead later in hospital.

In just the past year-and-change, there were two attemptedassassinations against President Donald Trump, then a candidate, the shootings of two Minnesota state legislators and their family members, the arson attack on Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s home and the shooting of the Centers for Disease Control headquarters — and now, what appears to be the assassination of a famous far-right figure with close ties to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Other recent episodes included the shooting of Republican congressmen in 2017, the Unite the Right rally at Charlottesville that left one protester dead in 2017, the

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