Charlie Kirk was thirty-one when he was shot and killed at a university campus in Utah. You can disagree with his worldview or legacy, but he never used force to get what he wanted. He went campus to campus speaking, challenging opponents, arguing, converting young people to his cherished worldview.

Just so that you know, this piece is not about him. As is the case with most right-wing activists, he was a polarising figure in American politics, and I can live with that difference of opinion. However, there are certain patterns that have emerged in recent days. We need to talk about them. Charlie's assassination was one of them.

I would not have even heard about it for days given my mother's sudden death in Dubai and, for some strange reason, my struggle to get a visa to attend her funeral. I will share that story another day. I was alerted to the shooting by our mutual friends. I knew Charlie through social media and he did not stop following me when, on a principle disagreement, I unfollowed him.

When I asked these friends about the motive of the shooter and which of the many controversies he was involved in might have prompted this, I was told that the shooter was at large. Then they shared his tweet from last week about more visas to India. Hold your horses. I am not accusing any nationality of killing him. I am describing what was shared with me and my takeaway.

He was commenting on Laura Ingraham's original post which read:

"Don't forget that any trade deal with India will require us to give them more visas. I'd rather not pay them in visas and trade deficits. Let Modi see what terms he can get from Xi instead."

In response Charlie wrote:

"America does not........

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