ALEX WROTE THIS JUST A FEW HOURS BEFORE CHARLIE KIRK WAS ASSASSINATED: I am seeing many people who are saying that the murder of Iryna Zarutska is radicalizing them.

The radical positions they are esposing are the following:

1. A man with 14 arrests, including for assault, should have been tried and jailed (presuming guilt) for the crimes committed that led to the prior arrests.

2. A man who was a diagnosed schizophrenic with a history of violence, including assault against his sister, should have been involuntarily committed and institutionalized rather than allowed to wander the streets homeless.

3. A man who was a diagnosed schizophrenic with 13 prior arrests should not have been let free from jail on cashless bail after his 14th arrest.

4. People should be able to ride public transportation without worrying that they will be violently attacked and possibly even killed for sitting in a seat in front of another human being.

Those are the radical positions being espoused.

Read those again. Slower if you must.

And now to the list we must add: 5. People should be able to engage in civil discourse on a college campus without worrying about taking an assassin’s bullet to the neck.

Whatever happens next, if Kirk’s assassination doesn’t harden our resolve, then we’ve already lost.

And do read the whole thing.