Charlie Kirk was a peaceful man who went out of his way to openly engage in public discussion and political debate in the service of finding the truth. But most radicals today think political arguments consist of yelling and screaming while banging pots and throwing projectiles at anyone who doesn’t submit to their intolerant opinions.

Of course that isn’t intelligent argumentation, it’s just ideological belligerence. And such belligerence produces belligerent people. And so Kirk was a real threat to these radicalized Americans. He wouldn’t bellicosely respond to the radicals’ violence, thereby enabling them to justify their violence as self-defense. And then, when the banging pots and the usual street projectiles didn’t work, they threw the ultimate projectile at Kirk and killed him.

But the result isn’t silence. Instead, in the now-acclaimed name of open-forum free-speech Charlie Kirk, the result is a roar of conversation. And a nation-wide uproar of openly discussed ideas is a hard thing to bang pots and throw projectiles at. Even more importantly, it is impossible to shoot at and even assassinate ideas. Ideas are bulletproof. And the truth is immortal.

ROBERT JACQUES

JAMES STUCHELL

Williamsport

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