Thursday, September 11, 2025
PMT: Another death
I'll be honest-- I really didn't have much of a sense of who Charlie Kirk was. At one point, he apparently talked about me on his show (according to people who heard it), but until his death I really didn't know his story.
It's terrible that he was murdered. It seems to just be part of a long line of murders out of hate, resentment or mental illness that risk becoming the background noise of our society. When it becomes normal that someone was shot dead because of hate or political opposition, we are in a very bad place.
There is a fact about this one that sticks out. He apparently was killed with a single shot from about 150-200 yards away (so, up to two football fields, if you think that way). That's a pretty accurate marksman, especially given the moving target. It could be that this is someone with training in the military or elsewhere.
At some point I would love to read a piece by a psychology prof about the common mainframe of these shooters-- it could be a starting point for action.
