Random Charlie Kirk thoughts

Just a few random thoughts, in no particular order:

• I didn't pay much attention to Charlie Kirk, so I didn't have much of an opinion about his views. Yet, I immediately condemned the murder because I'm opposed to murder- especially as a form of censorship. How much of a loser do you have to be to celebrate that? Well, the losers were certainly celebrating yesterday.
• The fatal neck shot might actually have been intended as a head shot. It would be easy to miss by that much, especially to hit low at that distance, and in this case, people would be talking about the "training and skill" to hit such a specific target, when that might not have been the target at all. I think a headshot was more likely the intention. If I were an evil loser, that's what I would have been trying to do.
• I don't agree with anyone 100%- but unless they are trying to harm me or some other innocent individual, I wouldn't dream of killing them.
• Murdering someone because you don't like their arguments is an admission that you don't have a good counterargument. And you know you can't compete in the market of ideas.
• You can sometimes tell the motivation by the target. A random politician's murder gives you no specific clue to the motivation- many people hate every politician for multiple and unrelated reasons. A vocally anti-gun politician being targeted doesn't leave you wondering about the motivation. The same for a pro-gun activist being murdered. The motivation for this murder isn't really in question, except by those who keep such an open mind that their brains have fallen out. It might be triggered by one topic to the exclusion of others, but the motivation was to silence him because they didn't like what he said, and how good he apparently was at defending his position. If it turns out I'm wrong, I'll admit it.
• Unfortunate Truth #7: Politics makes people stupid, and usually at least a little bit evil.
• The evil losers saying that Charlie Kirk didn't want to ban guns, so it's karma that he was shot and killed, are just idiots. If the choice is between living in "gun-free" [sic] slavery, or risking death, ethical people always choose the risk."Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." ("I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery") ~ Thomas Jefferson
• Some are saying the time for tolerance is over, but it has never been the right time to tolerate archation. From anyone, for any reason.
• Don't retaliate against individual Democrats. Even if it's proven a Democrat did this, egged on by the violent rhetoric of the Democrat Party and its media influencers, for reasons that are easy to imagine, be the better person. It's a low bar, but it's essential.

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