Let me start by saying that Charlie Kirk is someone I would never have had as a friend, and I’m certain he would have never even considered having me as a friend. He was arrogant, self-righteous, bigoted, and a top notch boor.

But he didn’t deserve to be murdered.

Whoever it was that killed him deserves whatever becomes of them. They not only took a life, but they have inflamed the rift between left and right. We on the left abhor gun violence. We abhor the taking of lives. We don’t wish to see people needlessly die. And whatever I thought of Charlie, I much more wanted to see him get his ass handed to him by real and legitimate intellectuals than to have him shot by some ignorant ass today.

Charlie represented much of what’s wrong with Christian nationalism. He was among the worst. But he didn’t deserve to die.  I hope that in his next life though, he’ll come to embrace love over bigotry.