Assassin

He's 22 years old, barely old enough to drink alcohol legally. And he's a murderer. He used a hunting rifle, a Mauser bolt-action rifle with a mounted scope, to assassinate a man he didn't agree with. It seems it's becoming the American way to silence, forever too many times, those with ideas we don't like. And it certainly doesn't help that we have a president who promptly starts pointing fingers at, assessing blame on, people he doesn't like (and there are a lot of them).

Immediately after Tyler Robinson shot and killed Charlie Kirk, a right-wing political activist, on the campus of Utah Valley University at a rally on September 10th, Trump blamed the Democrats and the liberals. Yes, those violent, badass people who disagree with him and his authoritarian way. Guess what, Trump? Tyler Robinson comes from a MAGA Republican family that wholly supports you. So, one of yours murdered one of yours. Wasn't that the same scenario at your first anemic assassination attempt? (BTW: Some of us believe that whole scene was a rehearsed play to make you seem like a hero.)

And then Utah's Governor Spencer Cox pleads with young people to not use violence and killing as a way to express disagreement with others, especially public leaders. Seriously? We have a president who espouses anger, hatred, violence, and lies to get his way. Whether you agree or not about illegal immigrants in this country, the way this administration is going about sending them home is violent and downright scary due to the intense manhandling by the silent masked men called ICE. Alas, for poor sad Governor Cox, he regrets that he can't blame this high-profile murder on an illegal immigrant. Robinson, unfortunately for Cox, grew up in Utah and attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints less than a mile from his home. Hmmm . . . .

And so 22-year-old Tyler Robinson assassinates 31-year-old Charlie Kirk -- kills him with one well-aimed shot. No doubt, Charlie Kirk's people and other MAGA devotees will carry their anger forward into our already acrimonious country. I imagine our current turbulent way of life here in the US will continue to escalate (and Trump will encourage it) until we are engulfed in a civil war, no matter what Governor Cox prays for.