Opinion: Charlie Kirk was a staunch defender of free speech

Charlie Kirk was a national conservative . I am a freedom conservative . While both right-wing activists, we nevertheless shared deep disagreements over the vision and direction for the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

But such cursory distractions no longer matter. In the wake of the vicious evil of an assassin’s bullet at my own home campus of Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk stopped being my political opponent. He became a martyr. And that’s how I will choose to remember him.

But a martyr for what? Charlie Kirk was an intensely active political figure with opinions on virtually every issue. For which of these opinions was he so wrongly slain?

Since the capture of Charlie’s assassin, we’ve begun learning about some of the political motivations for this tragic in