There is only one appropriate reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life.

We live in a nation where the freedom to express ideas is foundational to our society, to our democracy and to our American soul.

We do not know the motive of Kirk’s assassin, but it is reasonable to believe that the killer wanted to silence his voice, to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence.

It was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet.

Political analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against

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