Last Wednesday, a lone gunman sent a single bullet through the neck of Charlie Kirk as he spoke in an open-air forum on the campus of Utah Valley University in Provo.

Given that this shooting took place 800 miles away and in a state that bears little cultural resemblance to ours here in the Bay Area, it would be easy enough for us to momentarily mourn the rising cost of U.S. political violence, shrug our shoulders and then move on.

But I hope we won’t — here’s why:

We live in and benefit from perhaps the most vibrant economy in the history of the world. Silicon Valley, broadly defined, produces so much economic, intellectual and technological capital that it has become the envy of the world. Government, civic and business leaders come here from all corners of the Earth to learn what mak

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