Pennsylvania\u2019s Josh Shapiro says US stands at \u2018inflection point\u2019 after Charlie Kirk killing and urges unity over division<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has said Americans must \u201cuniversally condemn political violence, no matter where it is\u201d after the killing of rightwing youth organizer Charlie Kirk<\/a> as well as a deadly shootout in Shapiro\u2019s state that left three police officers dead and two others injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours before Kirk\u2019s funeral, Shapiro said that the nation stands at an \u201cinflection point\u201d and urged Americans to choose shared values over division, pointing to the solidarity shown by Pennsylvanians in the aftermath of the officers\u2019 killings in York county last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think we\u2019re at an inflection point as a nation, and I think we can go in a number of different ways,\u201d Shapiro told moderator Kristen Welker on NBC News\u2019s Meet the Press. \u201cI hope we go the direction of healing, of bringing people together, of trying to find our commonalities \u2013 not just focus on our differences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shapiro told Welker about his own recent experience with political violence: when his gubernatorial mansion was firebombed<\/a> in April, an act that authorities suspect was carried out by a man unhappy with Shapiro\u2019s support of Israel amid the Israeli war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n