Utah Gov. Spencer Cox told a news conference Friday that the murder Wednesday of political activist Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University “is a watershed in American history.”

He added that the question was what sort of watershed it would be.

“Do we escalate or do we find an off-ramp?” he asked. “It’s a choice.”

Indeed, it is. The future direction of any nation is set in motion by millions of individual choices daily. The future really is up to you.

That said, the United States seems to have had a lot of watershed moments like this in recent years, from the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump to the killing of a Democratic Minnesota state representative and her husband, to mass shootings too numerous to mention.

Always, the answer seems to be escalation, not off-

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