Yesterday, Charlie Kirk was killed. I don’t think much about it because he wasn’t someone that I paid any attention to. One of his quotes about the Second Amendment is that a “few” gun deaths each year was the price we paid to keep the Second Amendment. I’d wonder what he thinks now, except I really don’t care either way.

So, as far as I’m concerned, he got what he asked for. Actually, I’m pretty sure he thought that gun violence would never affect him or someone he cared about. People like him like to stir up trouble and then walk away from the mess they created. They’re fine with people killing each other in the streets or whatever as long as it doesn’t affect them. Then, they have this hero scenario in their head that with their guns, they’ll be able to protect their family should a threat arise.

How’d that work out for ya Charlie?

I had an acquaintance from high school who is something of a minor celebrity thanks to his appearance on a reality show. A few years ago he was spouting nonsense related to that show, and I just had enough of his b.s. and unfriended him. His wife is someone I grew up hanging around with from a young age, so she was still on my friends list. I have a feeling something I said or posted became a topic of conversation between them, and less than a week ago, I got a friend request from him on Facebook again. Everyone deserves another chance, so I accepted it.

Yesterday, he started ranting about how he wanted liberals to comb through videos of Charlie Kirk and produce any evidence of him ever saying anything racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc. He said they wouldn’t be able to because they wouldn’t find that. According to him, Charlie Kirk was just a very intelligent debater who spoke the truth, and liberals couldn’t stand it. I’m paraphrasing from memory here because after the second or third rant on the subject, I just deleted him as a friend.

I am almost sixty years old. I don’t do homework assignments anymore. I don’t care enough about debating him to go through watching videos of someone I can’t stand to produce the “proof” he alleges isn’t there. I also know that even if I did that and produced videos of Charlie Kirk saying the things he’s said in the past, he’d dismiss it. Either he’d say that whatever it was that was being spouted wasn’t offensive or racist or homophobic or whatever, or he’d try to explain it away.

JUST LIKE THEY ALL DO WITH THE RIDICULOUS STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF TRUMP’S MOUTH.

It’s not like I don’t have experience with this over the past twenty years or so. I watched people I liked, whom I thought were decent human beings, descend into insane racists after President Obama was elected. I watched them pretend to want to discuss things when all they wanted to do was sling mud and make unsubstantiated claims about him and others. I would produce the proof they were asking for when discussing, and watched them completely ignore it and just move the goal posts.

And the truth is, I just don’t care enough about you to try to change your mind if you’re one of them. If I honestly thought you were looking for a discussion, I’d be more than happy to have one with you. But these people aren’t. They think that they’re “owning the Libs” when they say stuff like this. The truth is, we’re all losing at this point. Not because Charlie Kirk was killed, but because we’ve lost the sense of community we once had in this country. We used to care about one another, and now it seems more than ever like being Republican means the only person you care about is yourself and your immediate family.

You reap what you sow.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.