MAGA Fanning Violence

To the editor:

No matter our background, origin, or political party, most of us Fayette County residents believe that violence has no place in our political process and that weapons of war have no place in our communities. We all deserve to live our lives safely, move through our communities, and engage in our elections — whether running for office or through a school hallway.

Despite this, we’ve seen MAGARepublicans fan the flames of violence time and time again, whether pointing fingers at newcomers to distract their agenda from taking away our freedoms or inciting voters to seek to resolve differences with bullets and not ballots, stoking violence that harms us all.

But we, Fayette County voters, can extinguish this violence. In this election, voters have a chance to reject a MAGA movement that feeds, grows off, and promises more violence and choose instead a country where no one fears for our lives or our loved ones. It’s a country where we ban weapons of war, so they’re not used against elementary schoolers, immigrants, politicians, or concert attendees. A Fayette County where the people who represent us respect our freedoms — to live without fear of gun violence, to cast our votes and have them counted, and to decide for ourselves what our futures will hold.

Kirk Pate Flatonia