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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

We look at the kinds of things that have been happening, starting on the first day of this year with a terrorist attack in New Orleans, school shootings in Minneapolis,

politicians being gunned down in their front

doors, the Charlie Kirk shooting, the pace of this, which used to be something that

was every month or every other month is now every week or every other week.

Something is definitely wrong with the idea that our public discourse has now become a discourse that is spoken in violent acts as opposed to discussions.

That's John Miller on CNN. He's former FBI. I think that's what he was.

You know, I didn't know that the pace had picked up really.

It seemed pretty awful to me for quite a while,

and then you get just lost in the blur of news.

You can't remember what happened when.

Yeah.

That little laundry list there was pretty troubling.

But I assume he's looking at the actual stats.

If the pace has picked up of violence, like big public violence, terrorist attacks, school shootings, political violence, that ain't good.

I don't know.

I don't know.

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