President Biden delivers remarks from the Oval Office after an assassination attempt on former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. On a recent flight to one of the many conferences that populate the summer calendar, I watched "One Life," a movie about Sir Nicholas "Nicky" Winton, a young London stockbroker who, in the months leading up to the start of World War II, embarked on a mission to rescue 669 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Released in 2023, "One Life " highlights the extraordinary impact that an individual can have on our society.

While Winton's heroic story happened decades ago, it could and should be a lesson for us all as our nation approaches an election that finds our electorate more polarized than ever. As seen in recent years, and even as recently as July 13 , lawmakers are fanning the flames and political violence is becoming more commonplace. Former President Trump and President Biden (Getty Images) "A former president was shot.

An American citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing," said President Biden during a rare primetime Oval Office address , just 24 hours after a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. JOY REID SUGGESTS TRUMP COULDN'T 'AVOID THE CONSEQUENCES' OF HIS OWN RHETORIC AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT "There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence ever. Period.

No .