Charlie Kirk’s assassination was another tragedy. I disagreed with many of the things Kirk said, but respected and admired his patient willingness to dialog with disagreeing members of his audience. It was a behavior the country would greatly benefit from more of. But liking or not liking Charlie Kirk should be totally irrelevant to strongly condemning his assassination.
A The Hill headline stated “A top State Department official on Thursday warned “foreigners” in the U.S. against praising the death of Charlie Kirk, the conservative influencer who was shot and killed at an event in Utah on Wednesday.” “foreigners-warned-Charlie Kirk” I would like to unpack that statement a bit. No one should praise his death. If we are sharing with foreign visitors the behavior we would expect from them and that they should display if they want to get on well, that would be fine. But coming from our current State Department I suspect that the warning is a threat of deportation for anyone who would dare to be so rude, which would violate the fundamental free speech principles that have always been so important to our culture.
President Trump stated that the assassin was from the “radical left.” As the assassin has not yet been apprehended, we don’t even need to wonder what information the President has that has not yet been shared with us. I very much want to know who the assassin was and what his motivation was. But that information will in no way absolve him of the evilness of his crime (we do know that it was a man/boy from FBI photographs). The President’s baseless claim is not contributing to a better atmosphere in America. It certainly did not reflect Charlie Kirk’s commitment to civil dialog.
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Warren, I usually don’t see things the way you do, but surprisingly, I find myself agreeing with you on several points. First, we should be talking about Freedom of Speech here, and it shouldn’t be ignored. Normally, I would not support any form of violence, even if the people involved aren’t thinking clearly or handling disagreements like adults. I won’t comment on what led two young individuals, who I think are still not fully grown, to argue and for one to act violently. I’ll leave that for the law to figure out. However, I really question why other government officials, besides the police and the justice system, need to be involved in this situation. Plus, it’s wrong to stop outsiders from discussing or commenting on this crime.
Once again, I feel like emotions are driving an administration that should be dealing with much bigger and more important issues for us Americans. Personally, I wish the current leaders would concentrate on the problems with tariffs, the slowing economy, reducing interest rates, and figuring out the mess in the Caribbean, the worsening war in the Middle East, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Let the police and the justice department handle those other matters.