MINOT — This week, our nation was punched in the face by the graphic scene of a young man shot in the throat while exercising his First Amendment rights on a college campus in Utah. The videos of the gruesome killing were immediately available.

If you haven’t seen them, please do yourself a favor and miss them. Whatever you’re imagining, the reality is more awful.

We should all be able to agree that murder — political assassination, in this instance — is not something anyone deserves, no matter how provocative their politics.

But we can’t.

Charlie Kirk’s murder elicited victim blaming — and worse — from some in the national news media, and while there is still some modicum of accountability on those platforms (MSNBC fired commentator Matthew Dowd after he blamed Kirk for his own mu

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