Death not deserved, but views abhorrent

Charlie Kirk should still be alive. No one should be killed for expressing their opinions, even hate-filled opinions rooted in white supremacy. While I agree with letter writer Walt Sivertsen that there will be unintended consequences of his assassination, I pray the unintended consequences will be different from what Mr. Sivertsen envisions.

My hope is that Mr. Kirk’s death prompts people to read Kirk’s words and watch his videos and wonder how he gained a national platform and, worse, how he managed to influence so many young adults. Not too many years ago, Mr. Kirk would have been a Nowhere Man relegated to using a cheap bullhorn on a city street corner to bellow his message of hate and white supremacy, gaining the attention of nobody.

Here are just of few of Mr. Kirk’s warped wonders:

“If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us. … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

And, “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

And, “The American Democrat party hates this country. They want to see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white. Or, there is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.”

These are just some of Kirk’s statements that cannot be overshadowed by the tragedy of his death.

William Dean Bruno

Sugar Grove