The internet has been torching The Wall Street Journal after it falsely reported the bullets used by the alleged Charlie Kirk murderer had "transgender ideology" inscribed on them.

Mr. Kirk founded Turning Point USA, a political organization designed to rally young conservatives. He was answering questions about transgender politics and mass shootings from students at Utah Valley University on Wednesday when he was shot and killed. Authorities have not yet identified a suspect and said the investigation was ongoing.

In the past five years alone, public figures across the ideological spectrum have been targeted. America has seen eras of political violence before.

Most alarmingly, President Donald Trump, in an Oval Office address later that evening, echoed those sentiments. “Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives,

Authorities have apprehended a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative media figure who was killed while participating in a public event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The alleged assassin is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old resident of Utah.

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

In the aftermath of his death, Trump’s Oval Office address pointed the finger at rhetoric of ‘the radical left’

The idea that domestic political violence has gotten worse in the past decade or so is a common intuition,” one expert said.