Mitch Albom: The bell that tolls for Kirk’s death rings loudest with our youths

We can be certain of only one thing in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It won’t be the last of its kind.

It won’t be the last, because it wasn’t the first. Not in this century. Not in this decade. Not even in this year.

It was only three months earlier that two Minnesota state legislators were shot, one of them fatally. That killing fell less than a year after President Donald Trump had his ear grazed by a would-be-assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania, then, months later, was nearly fired upon at his own golf club in Florida.

There will be more of these incidents, because we’ve grown as accustomed to violence as we have to rain. It just happens, we tell ourselves. Stormy weather. People said they were horrified by the video of Kirk being shot in the neck. But how can we be horrified? We