You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the attempted assassination of President Trump at the White House Correspondence Dinner and the professed Christian beliefs of the alleged shooter.

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Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center.

John, I think we have to start this week

with the attempted shooting at the White House correspondence dinner last weekend. Most of our listeners,

I'm sure we'll be aware of the incident. There was a man from Caltech who took a train across

the country and published a manifesto claiming that he wanted to assassinate President Trump. And he was thwarted

by the Secret Service, but it was a terrifying incident. I mean, there's a lot of videos of it,

of the Secret Service kind of storming the event, getting the public officials off the stage,

people diving under their tables. Unfortunately, it's kind of a familiar scene at this point, but still

terrifying. I'm really grateful that he wasn't successful. But the reason I wanted to talk about it with

you is that this incident in particular stands out in a few ways. Most of the previous, you know,

assassination attempts of the president,

and then I'm also thinking of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and kind of violent political

activism, terrorism that we've seen in the last few years. Once we find out more about the

perpetrator, it's somebody who is clearly mentally unwell and has a lot of

comorbidities, we might call them. And you'll find family members saying, you know, we knew there was a

problem or we've reported them before or we were worried. And that certainly doesn't help things

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