Charlie Kirk was assassinated this week. A man with a microphone in his hand and an audience in front of him was cut down mid-sentence. Whatever you thought of him, the shock should have stopped us cold. Instead, before the echoes of the gunshot faded, too many people sprinted for their political jerseys.
If you are cheering for this man’s death, you have lost your humanity. A man is dead. Whatever you thought about his politics, he was a son, a friend, a neighbor to someone. If your first reaction is to celebrate, you’ve let politics devour the part of you that makes you human.
If you are trying to make a political issue out of this, you have lost your soul. We live in a country where grief barely gets a moment of silence before someone finds a way to spin it into campaign material. Whe