I did not like Charlie Kirk. I never heard anything that I agreed with that he said or supported. I don't otherwise know very much about him.
But he didn't deserve being shot to death as he was. His family didn't deserve that.
I don't have to say anything nice about him. I don't have to mourn him. I can say anything I want, because we do have free speech. Ironically the same free speech he had that some people say he deserved to be shot for exercising. What I can do is speak out against killing others for what they say, simply because they said it. I can also otherwise be silent about him and his beliefs because I believe in civility and decency, things that seem to be rare these days.
When the people who tell you loudly how they are the good guys cheer a sniper shot of a guy who was just talking on a college campus... I doubt they are the good guys. The good guys do not kill indiscriminately, and they don't cheer when it happens, even to their purported enemy.
In war people kill and are killed. In war. Are we at war? Has a war been declared? Stop with the Hitler stuff... if all Hitler ever did was write a book and say horrible things, then he wouldn't have deserved random sniper fire either... but Hitler was elected to lead his country and he led it down a horrible path to try and take over the world and commit atrocities along the way. In the end, ironically for this forum, Hitler took his own life in his bunker when he saw how things were going to end for him as he was losing the war he started. There is no comparison to Hitler here that makes any sense.
You don't have to like Kirk, you don't have to mourn him, but cheering his murder is chilling. Anyone who does that doesn't want to be part of a civil society. The person who shot him doesn't want to be part of a civil society. No civil person should want that. Such paths lead to horror very quickly.
I can't even with this anymore. I don't like being put in the position to even seem like I'm defending the man's views... because I'm not. I just believe in the freedoms we are supposed to have in this country to voice our views, and especially to do so without being shot in the head in public just for saying words. But I've got my own shit to deal with and the public reaction to celebrate this man being shot like that does not at all make me want to be a part of this world even if I could overcome other things. This shit just makes me more than ever certain that the world is horrible, even the people who shroud themselves in "good" are at heart evil and want to kill just as much as the others do and declare themselves righteous for doing so.
I think I'm done with this conversation now, and hopefully close to done with the world.