Here we go again. Another politically active American dead: killed, this time, while answering questions on a college campus.
- “Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event”
Hannah Schoenbaum, Alanna Durkin Richer, Mark Sherman; AP (September 10, 2025)
My wife tells me he’s left behind a wife and five children. [update Sept. 10, 2025 9:15 p.m. Central: seems it’s wife and two children, don’t know where the other number originated. Either way —] Those folks are hurting today.
No pressure, and I realize that there’s more to life than prayer: but putting in a word or two on those folks’ behalf couldn’t hurt. I’ll be doing that myself in a few minutes.
This is “current events”, but I’m putting the “history” tag on this post, since I consider what’s happening as history that’s in progress.
I’m not looking forward to the usual sound and fury in my news feed.
There may be more to say about the latest high-profile murder in my country, but most of what matters in how I see it — well, I talked about it a couple months back:
- “Attack on Lawmakers: Politics, Life, and Making Sense Anyway”
(June 21, 2025)
