Charlie Kirk spent his career showing up where he wasn’t welcome. Mostly on college campuses, where he would set up a tent and invite students to argue with him. At 31, the Turning Point USA founder and father of two was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while doing what he had built his career around for more than a decade: encouraging dialogue over violence and shouting matches.

Kirk believed deeply that “when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.”

The only rational response to such an act of terror is sympathy. Keep the political statements in your pocket. But the

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