Most people who voiced opinions on either side of the divide on the assassination of the firebrand conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus on September 10 had never actually heard any of his pronouncements. They were basing their opinions on the selective snippets peppered all over the internet within minutes of Kirk being shot allegedly by a man now identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from the town of St George in Utah.

At this point it is unknown whether Robinson had a deeper knowledge of Kirk’s philosophy and pronouncements or whether, like most of his peer group, he too relied on what the media had been selectively dishing out for years about Kirk and the agenda of the Turning Point NGO. But whatever information and opinions Robinson garnered over the years were clearly enough for a straight A student like him to take a radically non-intellectual path to deal with Kirk.

The relatively easy availability of guns and rifles in the US has indeed made assassinations / hits / murders that much easier there. Robinson’s own family owned guns and taught him and his brothers how to use them from a very early age. But all those who use guns for the all-American pastime of hunting deer do not go around pumping bullets into activists, that too those who do not hold any political office. And in this case, it seems planned, not impulsive.

American universities are already in the spotlight for being hotbeds of “Left-Liberal" activism, with student protests taking on an increasingly polarised and violent cast especially since President Donald Trump decided to actively dismantle the prevailing woke ideologies on campuses. So, the evolution of university student Robinson into an extremist who executed a plan to silence an eloquent opposing voice with a........

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