Strange to take ur morality cues from a person you found to be immoral. Personally the thing that troubled me about his politics was the placing of a lower value on the lives and well-being of those whose ideologies differed from his own. At some point you have to decide if you’re against hate and violence altogether or only when they’re targeting a specific group. Murder is murder. Gun violence is gun violence. If you can’t stand by your principles now then you never had any to begin with.
As he might have, had you been murdered instead. The fight can’t be about ideologies with no regard for method. Otherwise we are the same as them. And even if you believe that violence is sometimes necessary to create societal change, I fail to see exactly how this assassination would create positive change. The loss of human life aside, this seems more likely to provoke retribution than anything else. Remember if it comes to war, they’re the ones with all the guns.
I want to provide a bit of perspective so you don’t get the impression all queer people feel the same about this: personally, despite vehemently disagreeing with his politics, I view this death, like all deaths by gun violence, to be a horrific tragedy. The whole reason I disagreed with his politics was that he placed a lower value on the lives and wellbeing of those with ideologies different to his own. The people celebrating his death are exactly the same as him and should be ashamed.
If he’d been personally responsible for the deaths of large groups of people I’d be on ur side here. But it’s important to distinguish between people like Charlie Kirk and people like Hitler. They may have shared some beliefs but they are incredibly different in terms of actual fascism. Charlie Kirk was not a Nazi. He might have subscribed to some Nazi ideology but being a Nazi is a very specific thing, just as being a true fascist is a specific thing. We cannot refuse the nuance.