Widow of Kirk gives statement after husband’s shooting – as it happened

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Democracy is the way that we have diverse societies that don't kill each other, largely," Lilliana Mason, a leading scholar of partisanship, observed recently. She added: As soon as we stop believing in it, it disappears." Dr Mason's own research suggests that there is sharply rising tolerance of political violence. On Wednesday, it claimed one more victim.