The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same.

But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that brought to fruition the horrible act.

That is -- who do we blame?

Homicide is unfortunately not so exceptional in our country. Among industrialized nations, the U.S. homicide rate, hovering around 6 per 100,000, is among the highest.

Somehow it seems to bother us more when someone is gunned down for their political expression than when they are gunned down in gang violence in an inner city or in a robbery or in a horrible, meaningless mass murder perpetrated by some lost and deranged individual.

A hot button here is the element of free speech.

Free speech is the oxygen of a free society. The threat of its being impeded by terrorism or by government is horrifying.

Our freedom has degenerated into chaos because we have........

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