Charlie Kirk's death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

He died with a microphone in his hand.

He had spent the hours before his own death commenting on the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte.

As a result he was also being misrepresented — as so often — over what he had said.

The evening before Kirk was killed CNN’s Van Jones claimed that Kirk was “race-mongering” over the Zarutska killing.

Jones and his CNN colleagues continued to pretend to be mystified about why the Charlotte killing happened. 13

But Kirk wasn’t race mongering, he was highlighting a horrible act of random crime that CNN wanted to ignore and cover up.

Any healthy society would be able to contend with an issue like that. Any healthy soci