Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was making a college appearance on Wednesday when a single shot fired with murderous accuracy from a sniper’s distance signaled the country’s turn toward a new era of political violence.

In what may or may not be a coincidence, Kirk was fatally wounded in the neck at Utah Valley University (UVU) just as he answered a question about transgender mass shooters. But the killer was not some crazed maniac bent on killing as many people as possible. He also was not an amateurish mope such as the would-be assassin who unleashed a flurry of shots at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing a fire chief while grazing Trump’s ear and affording him an opportunity to create an image that reelected him.

This was a calculating killer who w

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