The Cap Times is an independent newsroom. Sign up for the Opinion Roundup newsletter for weekly Madison and Wisconsin viewpoints. At 8:45 in the morning, a Friday, I spoke on a panel about political violence alongside Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine professor and the violence prevention chair at the University of California, Davis. We were in downtown Minneapolis, an 18-minute drive from where an assassin gunned down Minnesota state Rep.