The biggest development coming out of Charlie Kirk's murder last week is that the gun isn't to blame. This time, "social media" did it.

On Sunday, The New York Times published an idiotic op-ed to that effect by Nathan Taylor Pemberton, who "writes about extremism and American politics," and whose last article for The Nation magazine was presciently titled: "Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction." So we know he's a fair broker.

Long after it had been established that Kirk's shooter, Tyler Robinson, was in a romantic relationship with a transgender, Pemberton proclaimed: "The only thing that can be said conclusively about Mr. Robinson, at this moment, is that he was a chronically online, white American male."

Really? Was that the only thing that stuck out about the accused shooter?

If Pemberton's right, we can narrow down future assassins to the 99% of the population that's online -- with the exception of people over 65, only a paltry 90% of whom are online, according to Pew Research.

I don't know how the FBI's profiling unit missed this.

On further thought, the usefulness of "chronically online" as a red flag is severely hampered by the fact that it encompasses the entire f-ing population. Most Americans spend more than 10 hours a day online, according to a recent survey. The only less helpful characterization would have been "mammal."

Is there something -- anything else -- that stands out about a murderer who was living with his transgender partner?

Transgenders are, at most, 1% of the population. That's about the same as the percentage of Americans who are deaf, missing a limb, have eyes of two different colors or support Stacey Abrams for any elected........

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