“My students were there. One of them said, ‘We should just punch everybody who is in attendance.’ It was a real moment of reflection for me. I thought something has really changed.”
— Kevin Wallsten, Long Beach State University political science professor, on his research finding the young more accepting than the old of violence over political differences. He was describing student reaction to a campus visit by conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated Sept. 10 at a similar event in Utah.