This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions.

This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop — and also the 20-year-old who shot at Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally, grazing his face. Both snipers worked from a rooftop.

Neither was especially political. Kirk’s apparent killer, Tyler Robinson, was not allied with any party and didn’t vote. And the young man who tried to execute Trump, Thomas Crooks, was a registered Republican. Both came from conservative families nested in MAGAland.

The more sophisticated takes of Robinson’s motives veer away from political passions. Many Gen Z men like him have sunk in

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