i don’t agree with what Charlie Kirk said when it comes to his religion-based theories/thinking, although much of his theories of our societal problems and their cause & effect were spot-on, but nobody in the world should be killed for their words & thoughts as he was. Neither should anyone be canceled, silenced or boycotted over their speech. Free speech is what makes America great and what it is — liberty.

Lately, Jimmy Kimmel has gotten caught up in the issue as he was suppressed by ABC & threatened by the FCC for his comment, which I’ve heard and is simply a confusing & bad setup to a video that poked fun at Trump and really had nothing to do with a personal view of Kirk or his assassin. There was nothing he said that should have gotten anybody upset if they truly understood what he said, and it didn’t merit silencing him by his own platform. There’s nobody out there, Kimmel included, who believes Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA supporter, as the overwhelming evidence is that he’s a liberal LGBT member. Even so, Kimmel has the right to say it if he thought the assassin was a MAGA supporter, which he doesn’t.

Kirk is not the first and probably won’t be the last to be martyred for his speech, but we can hope this marks a turning point, pun intended, as violence against those we disagree with has to stop now. Look at all those who were killed before him, such as JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Gandhi, and all the political assassinations & attempts worldwide, including Julius Caesar. This has been going on for many millennia especially within religion.

People have been raised to believe that winning is everything and to not accept compromise or other’s people’s POV as it shows weakness, and to go along with the crowd groupthink & participate in the echo chamber, never revealing your real thoughts. This is a bully pulpit POV that’s being taught to most kids today. This culture of domination and pack mentality will destroy our society eventually, and it usurps a basic fundamental right all Americans have — to speak & be different. Just look at the congressional gridlock & partisanship we experienced over the last 30 years to see that people aren’t willing to compromise anymore, which is necessary for a society to live in peace & harmony.

We all have a right to live in peace & quiet, in harmony with civilization & its inhabitants, to pursue a legal income, to have a family & friends, and to have an opinion even it if it’s not popular. To shut people down who think differently than you is not the American way. We’ve fought wars against countries whose leaders & population thought it was good to suppress speech & oppress parts of society, if not all of it. That’s what Putin is doing right now in 2025 Russia. Shutting down speech that you don’t agree with is fascism & dictatorial. You’re suppressing the people’s right to liberty that is baked into our Constitution.

One big problem is that people are labeling speech they don’t like or that upsets them or opposes them as being “hate speech”, which is ridiculous, but even if it were true, hate speech is also protected by our Constitution as well. You can say that you hate Jews, as many liberals and college kids are now doing simply because it’s fashionable, without knowing the Palestinians and their platform that they’re advocating for or understanding why Israel is doing when they’re doing, and yet it’s protected speech.

People think liberals are new to the assassination game, but they’re been the main actors in political assassination for a long time. The assassins of Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt’s attempted assassin, and Caesar’s assassins were all liberals or communists, and JFK’s assassin also if you believe Lee Harvey Oswald did it (I don’t). England had an uprising in the 1640s & hung their king, which was done by what were essentially liberals before those ideals were formally created. The French Revolution was essentially liberal and a forerunner of socialism.

James Garfield’s assassin was an anarchist/communist, but more of a right-wing fascist than anything. He was the first of the right-wing assassins, and it wasn’t until JFK that right-wing assassins outside of the civil rights movement became plentiful, if you believe right-wing warmongers were responsible for JFK’s murder as I do. Right-wing assassination came in strong after that with even more civil rights murders, plus the murders of the aforementioned in the 1st paragraph.

It all boils down to people allowing others to dissent with their beliefs & engaging them in debate rather than shutting them down.