of things that don't. you know, this type of attack, you know, has been anticipated. it has been warned. we know that law enforcement, the fbi, dhs, over the last few years, have put out many warnings that political leadership is, you know, going to be targeted. why? because there's been a significant rise in political violence that to me and to others really represents a critical threat to our democracy. but i think that the most disturbing part of the rise of this, you know, violent poli political rhetoric and also the acceptance of it. in the last few years we've seen episodic, an instance of political violence, people promoting the act but not the causes of that act. because of that, what we've seen is a normalization of the violent political rhetoric and the pathway to violence. and i think with that as a