09/11/2025
you may agree with Charlie Kirk or you may disagree with him. That is your right, just as it was his. But what happened to him was nothing short of deplorable. The First Amendment protects speech on both sides of an argument equally—whether you love it or loathe it. That protection is the cornerstone of our democracy.
So I ask you: if someone you did agree with were gunned down for holding their views, would that strike you differently? Would you excuse it then? Of course not. Because deep down, we know that the legitimacy of the Constitution doesn’t turn on whether we like the speaker. To rationalize political assassination because the victim’s views differ from our own is to abandon the very principles that keep us free.
Now let us consider Luigi. Some suggest he may not be convicted, that the system is imperfect. And yes—it is flawed. It has blind spots, it has delays, it has failings. But one thing it cannot permit is this: a citizen deciding for himself who deserves to live and who deserves to die. Beyond Friday at noon, beyond any verdict or technicality, there is this unshakable truth—you don’t get to execute people simply because you disagree with them.
We are a nation of laws, not of vengeance. If we give up on that principle, if we excuse assassination because we dislike a man’s politics, then we no longer have a justice system at all—we have mob rule. And once that door is opened, no one’s freedom is safe.
So I leave you with this: the system may not be perfect, but it is the only shield we have against chaos. Uphold it. Defend it. Because if we allow political murder to masquerade as justice, we have already surrendered the very Constitution we swore to preserve.
