Only a few days after an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and other administration officials, I'm struck by how little the country seems to care. The shooting was quickly shoved out of the news cycle by a monarch visiting the White House and Trump's face appearing on passports.

This attempt wasn't as close as the bullet that grazed Trump's ear in 2024. But it was still another armed man with a plan to kill the most powerful person in the world. That this keeps happening should prompt serious national reflection, not just two days of headlines.

What worries me is that political violence is starting to feel less like a national crisis and more like background noise, especially to people in my generation, Gen Z, born between 1997 to 2012. The danger isn't only that violence gets openly condoned. It's that it gets quietly accepted as part of how American politics works now.

Americans are becoming acclimated to violence

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