No one deserves to have somebody sneak past security, climb to a rooftop with a high-powered rifle and take a shot at them.
And, no one deserves to sit on a stage with a microphone in his hand and barely finish a sentence — about violence, no less — and have a bullet explode in his neck.
And, certainly, no one deserves to have his bloody, ghastly murder playing on repeat in slow motion from six different angles on every social media platform.
No one deserves that. Ever.
That said, not everyone deserves to be a martyr.
America was rightly shocked by the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Even in a country built on the cornerstone of violence, that openly markets violence and has more guns than anyone can count, Kirk’s murder opened a lot of eyes.
Kirk, 31, a polarizing conservative political