No justification
Like a majority of People, I don’t really feel that Donald Trump is nor Charlie Kirk was racist.
Have been it not so despicable to observe, I’ll virtually really feel a modicum of sympathy for my acquaintances on the Left who’re nonetheless at present everywhere in the web, radio and tv looking for any specious rationale to countenance chilly blooded homicide for political motives. Let me prevent all a while – there isn’t any such justification that any true American will settle for.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
Free speech
Kudos to the Boston Herald for its most up-to-date editorial (“Charlie Kirk’s homicide deserves just one response,” Sept. 12). Everybody of us has a proper to our views and opinions. We’re a free nation with free speech. Nonetheless, we now have too many People who now not consider in civil discourse. They’re appropriate and everybody else is practising hate speech. These have gotten scary instances and the phrases of George Orwell come to thoughts: “The additional a society drifts from the reality, the extra it’ll hate those that communicate it.”
Charles Kirk was a provocateur and I by no means agreed with all which he proclaimed however he had a proper to his opinion as all of us ought to.
Nobody ought to be celebrating his homicide however sadly there are lots of who’re rejoicing in his demise. You’ll find them on-line, within the legacy media and even amongst Democrats up on Capitol Hill.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated as a result of he had one thing to say not appreciated in America anymore by far too many. The Left on this nation in 2025 believes that Democracy dies in darkness or so they are saying. Nonetheless, Democracy additionally dies when voices get silenced.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
Political violence
Re: ” Conservative activist Charlie Kirk fatally shot in act of ‘political assassination’ at Utah faculty,” Sept. 10.
I used to be deeply saddened to learn of the homicide of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. No matter how you are feeling about his views, we as soon as lived in a nation the place you had the “proper” to be “unsuitable” – the place you can categorical your opinions with out worry. As an alternative, Democrat “leaders” have persistently advocated violence since 2016 to realize their anti-American goals.
We’re devolving right into a banana republic the place violence is brazenly inspired as a method to realize political goals which has severely polarized our nation. We now have forgotten the best way to forgive and have dialogue which dehumanizes us all. Conflicts won’t ever be really resolved if violence is our solely means to cope with them.
This, greater than something, is destroying our democracy which seeks to resolve conflicts peacefully through debate as an alternative of by pressure. The homicide of Charlie Kirk ought to be a get up name for all People. Within the worlds of Abraham Lincoln; “A home divided in opposition to itself can not stand.”
Might God have mercy on our struggling and divided nation. I proffer my deepest sympathies to Charlie Kirk’s household.
Michael Pravica, Ph.D.
Acton
