Any form of murder is always wrong and political assassination in particular is an abomination against civilized society. Full stop.

No conversation about Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk should start in any way but that. There can be no caveats, no howevers , lest we diminish our own humanity for the sake of political point-scoring.

A young father of two young children was murdered in front of an audience in broad daylight for (it is relatively safe to assume) his political opinions. That’s never justifiable, regardless of what those opinions are. Period. Any voice left, right or center that suggests otherwise has the right to such expression — yes, even those — but they deserve to be scrupulously ignored.

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