Two years ago today President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated after a bullet tore through his ear, narrowly missing his head. Sadly, father and firefighter Corey Comperatore lost his life while shielding his family from one of the most shocking acts of political violence in modern American history. The attempted assassination of the president should have shocked the nation into ending political violence once and for all. But instead, left-wing violence has only grown in the past two years.
In the two years since the first serious assassination attempt against the president, several others have followed. Roughly two months after the attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Ryan Routh was arrested (and later sentenced to life in prison) for hiding out near Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, intent on assassinating then-candidate Trump. Just this past February authorities fatally shot 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin after he trespassed onto Mar-a-Lago armed with a shotgun and a fuel can and refused to comply with law enforcement when ordered to drop his weapon.
