Yesterday afternoon, at a Utah Valley University political event, hundreds of attendees watched the murder of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, a conservative movement-builder and itinerant controversialist. Within hours, millions more had seen the gruesome video of the moment when, in mid-sentence, a bullet pierces Kirk’s throat and streams of blood issue forth. It did not look like a survivable wound, and I am sorry to say that it was not. As a combat medic in Afghanistan once told me, “You can’t put a tourniquet on a neck.” No motive is known, and authorities have named no suspects.

The public reactions have been, to my relief, generally nonsociopathic. Opponents of Kirk who have in other instances celebrated the murder of their enemies have, for the most part, remained decorously mute this ti

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