I hate being angry, but I am really angry right now…

Out of respect, I will try to stay off the posts where people are advocating empathy for the death of a man who was hateful and not empathetic in life. Charlie Kirk didn’t attain sainthood by losing his life in the same way so many others already had because of his beliefs.

You can ask me not to "celebrate" a death, and I’m truly not doing that. But you cannot tell me how to feel about it. A man whose hateful rhetoric often endangered the lives of people like me is now silent. His was just one voice, and his message is certainly still out there, but I’m not going to pretend to shed any tears or lose any sleep.

And to say that this endangers my freedom of speech, well, that ship has probably long sailed. There are plenty of martyrs already on my side of the aisle, usually courtesy of gun-nuts like this fellow. And I have no doubt that the president will take advantage of this situation, regardless of who the gunman turns out to be, to divide us even further.

And we’re very divided. Pretending to make nice will not change that; we already know, being "the bigger person" was seen as weakness in Kirk’s camp. 😞