Welcome to the Clark Howard Show and normally I would talk about what our goals and purposes

are and what we do for you.

But I want to jump right in right now to the shooting the domestic terrorist attack that

happened at the Republican baseball practice for members of Congress and the Republican Party.

It is by longstanding tradition that the Republicans and the Democrats play a game each year.

The Republicans were in early morning practice in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.

The shooter, the terrorist is dead and our country once again visited by violence.

And I want to tell you something.

I'm old enough.

I'm going to turn 62 next week that I came of age in the 1960s, a time of enormous unrest in the United States.

We had several assassinations one after another it felt like during the 1960s we had riots in the streets.

And the level of anger in the country was intense.

You know, we as a country need to take a deep breath because if you are younger than I am,

you probably know almost nothing about went on in America in the 1960s.

And I should add by extension there was unrest, similar of nature in other parts of the world,

particularly in parts of Western Europe, like there is today.

And not being part of that era, it's like what was all that about?

And you go back through our history as a country.

There have been various times that the level of anger has led to irrational acts, violence, horrific things.

And we are in a time right now that our disagreements with each other, our differences are magnified by any of a number of reasons,

including social media, the relative anonymity of the internet, the crazy postings people do.

And we need to remember that among Americans that we don't agree with, they are still our fellow Americans, they are not our enemies.

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