The death of Charlie Kirk is a watershed moment for the United States.

A death in the family can bring people together. It can also rip them apart. The same goes for countries.

It is often the older among us, those entrenched in their opinions, who refuse to learn the lessons of violence. It is as easy to buy a gun now as it was when 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, and shot dead 26 people, 20 of them children.

Much has been made of Kirk’s ability to connect with young conservatives. To his credit, he was just as willing to debate with young liberals.

It is this spirit that must prevail as his death is mourned in the days and weeks to come. A campus shooter took the opposite course in Utah on Wednesday. The path of violence that coul

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