I’m not required to obey your strictures, live as you live, believe as you believe. I do not believe he was shot. There has been no official medical report. An AR15 causes a great deal of damage. Children actually shot with one in Uvalde could only be identified via DNA. THOSE people and their parents are people for whom I feel compassion while he blocked gun control.

Tr*mp took immigrant children from their parents (some died); he caused Sikhs to be attacked and killed (his followers thought they were Muslim); he got a variety of East Asians attacked after he used a racial slur for Covid (his followers thought they were all Chinese); he is an adjudicated rapist who bragged about sexual assault. Over 100,000 Americans died of Covid, in part, because of his ignorance, lies, and stonewalling.

People who support (and defend) such a man would vote for him no matter what a black woman says. They’re just looking for an excuse to support a lazy incompetent racist felon. 70% of white men and 55% of white women voters have done so. How do you think that makes the rest of us feel? Safe?

Talking empathy, President Biden showed compassion and called the woman whose husband was actually killed at the rally. She refused his call because her husband had been so full of hate, she felt sure he wouldn’t want her to speak with the President of the United States. Imagine that. Tr*mp has not called. Years ago, though, he called for the execution of 4 young minority men. They were imprisoned for years before being proven innocent. He has never apologized.

I am sorry about whatever happened to your son. Life can be so unfair. May his memory be a blessing to you and yours.

But I will NOT feel sorry for a man who has hurt so many. His own violent rhetoric has contributed to violence in this country. In fact, several mass shooters and J6 insurrectionists have said so.

So, bottom line: Please keep your disrespectful platitudes and excuses for racists to yourself.