I was taught to write obituaries in college
Right-wing commentator and provocateur Charlie Kirk died on September 10th. In the midst of a screed about inner city gang violence and pushing a blatantly false narrative about transgender individuals becoming mass shooters, his speech was halted when a sniper struck his neck and sent his blood gushing out over the campus of Utah Valley University. Pfft! Just like that. At nearly the same time, violence rang out on another school ground, not far away in Colorado. Here, a high school student wielded a revolver to injure three other students and themselves. Was it the 47th school shooting of 2025, or just the 46th? Hard to tell. Charlie Kirk was asked about mass shootings right before he died, and he dismissively responded with: "counting or not counting gang violence?" In previous shootings, Charlie Kirk was first on the battle lines to politicize these tragedies, without pause for grief, respect or nicety. It was acceptable, to Kirk, that children were torn to shreds by ho...