A terrible thing happened this past week. Charlie Kirk, a popular 32-year-old supporter of traditional conservative values was assassinated at a Utah college while meeting with students. Mr. Kirk conducted his life’s crusade via Turning Point USA.
Frankly, I never heard of Charlie until the day his life was ended by an assailant, who objected to Kirk’s ideology. We will probably learn a lot more about the shooter as time passes. He has been arrested. It would be interesting to hear the murderer’s justification for his actions that deprived Kirk from fulfilling his mission in life and took him away from his family as a husband and father.
As far as I know, Kirk never supported violence as a means to improve our country. He preferred debating with words and concepts. Nor did he ever espouse taking physical action against those who disagree with his philosophy on life and his code for young people.
The shooter wanted to rid the world of a man who fought for his causes peacefully. Supposedly, everybody in America is permitted to express their opinions and decide how they stand on specific and controversial issues such as abortion, crime, violence and family matters.
But wait, maybe America a not a place where everyone can express his or her opinions without fear of retribution? Some people on the far left rejoiced when they heard Charlie was gone. How does the shooter’s single action, the firing of a bullet to kill a man of peace, register with America? Among many other laws, the shooter violated Kirk’s freedom of speech.
Kirk was a great person based upon the reaction of many Americans to his demise; he probably would have eventually rivaled Martin Luther King Jr. and other great leaders who believed that passive resistance was the desirable way to make changes. Perhaps Kirk would have aspired to be to be elected president someday. Good God, America really could use a smart, honest and well-read person in the White House. No, not in this world. Violence is what idiots resort to when they want people to listen to them. Unfortunately, violence is a road to chaos and sadness.
R.I.P. Charlie Kirk. I wish I had a chance to meet you.