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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charlie wasn’t a public official.

Charlie wasn’t a candidate for public office.

Charlie wasn’t a corporate executive, supposedly personally “responsible” for any negative effects of corporate policies.

Charlie wasn’t a foreign diplomat or staff to whom blame for that foreign nation’s policies could be ascribed.

No, Charlie was an advocate for his faith and his political beliefs, as well as for open and cordial debate about both.  This was a political assassination at its most basic core - not because someone was angry about a policy that Charlie had enacted, or that he was currently facilitating, or that he might in the future implement - but rather for no other reason than the public expression of his ideas.  He was shot because of his discussions about his beliefs and for no other reason; and that should be a wake up call for all of us, right and left.

This will not end well.[/quote]

Oh really?  How about the children who were shot at their high school yesterday?  Was that an assassination as well?

People are calling this a political assassination before even knowing anything about the killer.  It’s just as likely this was some random lunatic with a gun.  And before you say, oh no, random lunatics aren’t sharpshooters, one of the first mass shooters in the US was a lunatic sharpshooter killing random people on a college campus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting

You might think Charlie Kirk isn’t random but he kind of is.  All of us are statistics with these kinds of numbers.

This shooting is more than anything, the result of guns everywhere in everyone’s hands.  No one is safe in this environment.[/quote]

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