In a sad and shocking reminder that there are few geographic limits to either insanity and/or political violence, UK news sources reported today that Sir David Amess, Conservative MP for Southend West was stabbed at a “constituency surgery” (public meeting) in the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and died of his wounds shortly thereafter.
Sir David, 69, had been an MP for various constituencies since 1983: Obituary Here.
Police have made an arrest, but no word yet as to the identity of the assailant, or any possible motivation for the attack.
Amess is the second MP to have died by violence in five years, after Jo Cox in 2016