I Disagreed With Charlie Kirk. But Violence Is Never the Solution

Igasped, hard, when I saw the alert that Charlie Kirk, age 31, was shot in the neck, in broad daylight, while speaking at a packed outdoor rally on the grounds of Utah Valley University. He was answering a question about mass shootings when gunned down beneath a pop-up tent. Given the profound and vicious divides of these times—Left versus Right, Democrats versus Republicans , red states versus blue states, citizens versus immigrants, and on and on—I had longed feared we would enter a period of overt violence, and here we are.

I was absolutely aware that Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist, podcaster, social media influencer, and staunch ally of President Donald Trump .

Did I agree with what Charlie Kirk had to say about George Floyd , about the brain capacity of Black women