Murder Is Wrong, Even If You're Angry About Losing a Debate

Or all of them

Charlie Kirk was murdered during a debate.

Here were his last words:

Questioner: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Too many.
Questioner: Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Then he was shot and killed. And the feds say the ammo the shooter left behind was engraved with “transgender ideology.” Quite a coincidence, huh?

As of this writing, we don’t know who did it or exactly why. But a lot of Kirk’s self-styled enemies sure are happy about it.

It’s the perfect encapsulation of current leftist thought: “Well, we can’t outsmart this guy. We’ve shouted him down till we’re hoarse, and he still keeps running circles around us. How about we twist his words, call him a Nazi, and then use that to justify his cold-blooded murder?”

The reliably hapless Matthew Dowd led the way on MSNBC within moments of Kirk’s assassination. Before anyone knew a single fact except that Kirk had been shot, Dowd sneered: “Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.”

In other words, it’s Kirk’s fault for saying something Dowd didn’t like. He should’ve kept his mouth shut if he didn’t want a bullet.

Dowd then backpedalled furiously:

But it didn’t work, because obviously he did mean to blame the Republican. He just made the mistake of saying out loud what all his peers were thinking, in front of the whole world. This was just a pathetic attempt to save his job, which didn’t work.

Since then, there’s been a flurry of celebratory libs:

The nauseating leftist bloodlust even reached the world of comic books. A DC Comics writer named Gretchen Felker-Martin said this:

And yes, this person is a man under the delusion that he’s a woman. He’ll have to fund his estrogen treatments some other way, because DC has already fired him and cancelled his comic.

And of course, we all know whose fault all this is:

Journalism is simple: When something bad happens to a Democrat, it’s the Republicans’ fault. When something bad happens to a Republican, it’s the Republicans’ fault.

Intransigent partisanship is hardly anything new, but now we’ve got the instantaneous communications technology to really plummet into the abyss. Hang on.

“If you scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist.” I think George Carlin said that. I’m sure feeling it right now. Again and again, I hold out hope that my fellow man will rise above petty grievances, ignorant bigotry, and mindless savagery. Again and again, those hopes are dashed.

And to top it all off, today is the anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history.

Happy Birthday, Moby!

Okay, I had to try to throw at least one joke in there.

I need to sleep this week before I can form more words about this. Wish me luck.

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