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If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that no one should be murdered for speaking.

In the aftermath of Charlie “Prove Me Wrong” Kirk’s murder at a Utah campus event, it’s clear that no, we don’t all agree on that.

The bulk of responses to Kirk’s assassination consisted of:

1) Sober condemnations of murder in general, or murder over speech, from most people, and

2) Opportunistic condemnations of “political violence” from the most politically violent creatures on the planet, politicians.

But we also saw significant amounts of celebration among Kirk’s opponents, and baying for the blood of anyone not aligned with Kirk among Kirk’s supporters........

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