Calm down, everybody. The murder of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk is reason to restrain impulses to political warfare, not to inflame them.

When Louisiana’s own Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in 2017, the culprit was not the collective political left or a “they,” but a lone drifter who hated Republicans. When Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords Of Arizona was shot in 2011, The New York Times editorialized there was a “clear” and “direct” link to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s PAC — but the culprit was not Palin or conservatives in general, but a paranoid schizophrenic fixated on Giffords.

After former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania, conservative social media was full of accusations that “they,” the leftist bad guys, had tried to kill him. N

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