The Terror Has Come

Out of a thousand details from the Charlie Kirk assassination, the one that stuck with me was that, when the shot rang out, the noise startled his three-year-old daughter sitting in the audience and, instinctively, she ran toward him, for safety in her daddy's arms. None of the "good" that is said to have come from his martyrdom - the new Turning Point chapters, etc - outweighs the absence to one little girl and boy of their father, and his reduction in their childhood to an image in a photo album and a voice on tape. But the weeks roll...