There are people grieving for Charlie Kirk, A hero died a senseless death today at the hands of a criminal enterprise that dropped the veneer of morality a long time ago.
The responses have ranged from grief for Charlie, to anger at the democratic party, the left, etc. in general because of their blasé attitude or outright celebration of assassination.
But there is a third group. The ones who say that there will be retribution. There will be violence. That the gloves are off and this is a Civil War now.
Those people, avoid them. Because here's the thing, if we stoop to their level and burn, loot, and murder, we are no better than them. We give them an excuse to say "See? Alt Right is violent". We give the Cabal an excuse to crack down, to deploy the UN. We desecrate everything that Charlie Kirk stood for.
Charlie Kirk stood for rational debate, for common sense. For us to take to the streets and enact mob justice, we might as well be shooting him now.
Charlie died a hero. To wage jihad in his name would be an insult to his memory.
I do not agree with burning, pillaging, looting, etc., but if war comes, naked violence is the only way to answer it. If that were not so, we would still be English today.
All the murderer(s) have done by assassinating Charlie Kirk is to reawaken the same sleeping giant that Japan found out about after Pearl harbor. These liberal crazies act like they want war with conservatives. Well, be careful of what you wish for since a significant number of conservative men are seasoned combat veterans, competent and trained gun owners, and not afraid to stand up to evil when it threatens their lives, or the lives of their families.
History proves violence does have its place, even if it is in defense:
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst; breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."
"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."
"The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms.”—Samuel Adams
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”—Patrick Henry
“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”—Samuel Adams
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” - John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765
“Is life so dear, or peaceful so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry, Speech at the Virginia Convention
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel William S. Smith, November 13, 1787
“’Tis a Common Observation here that our Cause is the Cause of all Mankind; and that we are fighting for their Liberty in defending our own.” - Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Samuel Cooper, 1777
“The people...are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case others.” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1803
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” - Samuel Adams, Article in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1777