General Discussion

Still, after Kirk’s shooting I’d wondered whether the assassin had chosen that particular rifle because he already knew that it wasn’t as traceable and that he had a few other personalities on his hit list.

As an aside, progressives and Democrats have been forced to live with the specter of political violence for decades now. I deplore that violence. Nobody, not even cray-cray right-wingers, should be in fear for their lives for speaking their minds. We good-guy progressives really should not shoot people.

One thing I suspect is that a lot of rightie influencers are realizing that the specter of violence that has plagued progressives for years might be menacing them, too. Charlie Kirk’s murder might have forced a few of them to realize that their magical King’s X has evaporated and that they may be in danger, too—not from the leftist bogey-men they feared, but from disgruntled folks from their own ranks.

They don’t seem to be handling that realization very well.