They created this violent world. We’re just forced to live in it.

Right -wing organizer Charlie Kirk was murdered In the cold on Wednesday.

The weapon was not a handgun or a hunting rifle. The only long distance shot seems to come from a military quality rifle. And this counts – because if they were liberals, weapons like this would be illegal to have.

If that did not depend on us, armed violence would not only have importance when conservative royalty is killed. It also mattered when Democratic legislators are murderedand especially when Schoolchildren are slaughtered.

But it’s not just weapons. This is the climate that President Donald Trump and his allies built. The scholars call it “eliminating rhetoric”: the idea that political opponents are not simply wrong, but bad, dangerous and must be eradicated. It is the language that leaves no room for disagreement or coexistence, only destruction.

The representative of the GOP Anna Paulina Luna gave us a perfect example With her post on X. In her first breath, she said that she was fed up with rhetoric. In the next, she insisted that the Liberals and the media were to blame for the murder of Kirk – by calling the fascist Republicans, we “caused this”. She stacked grotesque accusations that the liberals “doped children, cut their genitals, encouraging racial violence” and “protecting criminals”.

So much to lower the temperature. Conservatives like to spring that “firearms do not kill people; People kill people. ” But according to Luna, the shooter did not killed Kirk – the Liberals did it. It is not to calm the fire. It is pouring petrol over it.

And it is not the first time that she has done so. When a Democratic legislator of Minnesota and her husband were murdered And another legislator injured in a critical way in June, Luna Blamed Gov. Tim Walz For planning to speak during an anti-Trump “no Kings” rally, which was canceled as a result of the shots. In his world, “hatred” means nothing more than daring to disagree with Trump.

But the disagreement is as old as America itself. The foundation of our country was based on an argument: federalists vs anti-feudalists. We have bitterly fought on slavery, civil rights, Vietnam war, women’s rights, equality of marriage – the list is long. Democracy has always been messy and noisy.

Most of the time, conflicts are channeled towards more speeches, more organization, more politics. But the story also shows the danger when a side decides that the disagreement is intolerable. Slavery did not simply divided us – he tore the nation in the civil war. Vietnam war has sparked deep domestic disorders and violence. The lesson must be clear: once politics give way to eliminationism, the result is bloodshed.

This is what makes this moment so dangerous. We are going to disagree – exactly – in particular with a government that is actively dismantled, sending military forces to Invade American citiesAnd shredding democratic foundations. But the answer cannot be to silence the opposition with threats of more violence. It is not democracy. It is literally Fascism, clear and simple.

Luna is right on one thing: Kirk’s family and her children did not deserve this. No child losing a parent to armed violence deserves him. No parent who loses a child deserves it. And that is why liberal policies – such as checks of universal history and prohibit weapons of war –would save lives. Maybe they even saved Kirk.

But instead, the right is already intensifying. Conservative activist Christopher Rofo is demanding Political adversaries are imprisoned Under the pretext of the “chaos” that the conservatives themselves foment – criminalizing dissent until obedience remains.

It does not calm anything – is to intensify. With Trump even incapable of moral leadership, the ugliest impulses in our society are rewarded, and the flames have hidden. And history tells us where this road leads to: when violence replaces politics, the number of bodies climbs.

Now it’s their world. They fought, built it and defended – even when the victims were childrenAnd certainly when they were Democrats.

Kirk himself admitted as much in 2023.

“You will never live in a society when you have armed citizenship and you will not have a single death of firearms. It is nonsense”, it said A crowd delighted during a USA turn -point event. “It’s radiant. But I … think it’s worth it. I think it is worth having a cost, unfortunately, of deaths by guns each year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other rights given by God. It is a prudent affair. It’s rational. “

For Kirk, death deaths were not a tragedy to prevent, but a cost to accept. He called it cautious. Rational. And now his own family pays the price.

So stop blaming the liberals. We hate this shooting as much as the Conservatives. The difference is that we also hate all other shots.