Gun Violence and Pipe Bombs Jolt Voters as Election Winds Down. ‘Again?’ One Asks.

In South Florida, not far from the mass shooting in Parkland in February, voters absorbed a week of gun violence and pipe bombs with a kind of grim resignation.

“Again?” asked Karenn Durand, 27, mid-shift at a restaurant in North Miami on Saturday, pondering the mass murder at a Pittsburgh synagogue. She said she held President Trump personally responsible — if not for the shooting itself, than at least for the nation’s deep divisions that the shooting reflected in horrific reality.

In Milwaukee, Eric Pfeiler, an electrician who was walking downtown with his son Saturday, saw more of a systemic breakdown than any one person to blame.

“There’s just so much turmoil everywhere, it’s just sad,” Mr. Pfeiler said. “Everyone’s lost their vision and has just started pointing fingers.”

And at President Trump’s rally on Saturday afternoon at an airport hangar in Murphysboro, Ill., people expressed anxieties over the violence and discord they saw in American society. But they had come for a Trump rally performance, and that’s what they wanted to see. When he begged their forgiveness and asked them at one point, “If you don’t mind, I’m going to tone it down — just a little,” many people roared a resounding “No!”