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Did he deserve to die? I don't think it's fair to say that. He was a bad person and had a lot of bad influence over way too many people.
But even if he was reprehensible, killing him will not do anyone any good. It will just be used for further radicalization. Not that they need any excuse.
You almost nailed it. Right now, politicians all over the world - but especially in the US - are decrying "political violence." What they fail to acknowledge is that Kirk, Trump, the Republican party, and all of their ilk have been perpetuating political violence on an unimaginable scale for years. They have been murdering, torturing, terrorizing, and stealing from poor, vulnerable people for decades.
Having power to lock someone in a hot, mosquito-ridden cage until they die of starvation, thirst, or stress is far less kind than a bullet. Kneeling on someone's neck until they die of suffocation while pleading for their life is less kind than a bullet. Taking away people's medical care so their bodies are ravaged by disease until they die a slow, agonizing death is less kind than a bullet. Taking away childrens food until they starve to death is less kind than a bullet. I do not want violence. I don't want killing. I don't want oppression and suffering. The reality is that the Republican party has been engaging in nothing but political violence for decades. Political violence is their platform. It is their reason for existing. They take great joy from forcing political violence on others. Unfortunately, that constant state of war - and it is war - eventually catches up when the long-oppressed, seeing no other remedy or escape, decides to fight back. It's inevitable. This is always how the cycle of fascism plays out.
Next, the oppressors will make Kirk a martyr. They will use it as the excuse they needed to push their boot even harder on the necks of the vulnerable. They have been trying to fabricate this casus belli for months and now they have it. It will get worse now. Much worse.
As the deep state heritage foundation fascist Kevin Roberts famously said, "the country is in the midst of a 'second American Revolution' that will be bloodless 'if the left allows it to be.'"
As it turns out, we won't be turning into a Nazi dictatorship without blood being spilt.
People die all the time regardless of whether they deserve it or not. He did, though, so...
Fuck that. The only good nazi is a dead nazi.