Defending Charlie Kirk

If you find it ironic that a Second Amendment advocate was shot, you missed Charlie Kirk's point entirely. But, let's keep talking...

Personal accountability, and a dogmatic demand that arguments exist within "real world" constraints, were the cornerstones of Charlie's worldview – second only to God and objective truth (as Divinely revealed and, yes: defensible by secular logic). Charlie's positions were intellectually honest – a stark contrast to utopian thought experiments that assume, for instance, that banning bad objects will stop bad actors from doing bad things. By his own measure, Charlie wasn't killed by a gun. He was killed by a decision – by a possibility that defies disarmament when reality is governed by free will. 

Charlie didn't fight inescapable facts; he acknowledged them. If you find that acknowledgment hateful (heard out of context, anyone would!), I encourage you to watch the following slides. And to those of us who loved Charlie: don't let grief get in the way of grace. Truth is incontrovertible – but to agree on that conclusion, we need to first follow Charlie's example and invite everyone to the table to talk.

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