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There exists a legal term called "fighting words". If a man walks up to me saying, "I'm going to fucking KILL YOU!", I have every right to shoot him.
We can easily argue that a direct physical threat isn't in the same ballpark, but I am absolutely gleeful that Kirk was murdered.
In Germany, as far as the law is concerned, disrespecting someone's honor is effectively the same as throwing the first punch.
A general call for someone's death has never been ruled as fighting words in the history of US Law. But I don't think that was really your point.
The thing is, I see people calling for the death of Donald Trump all the time. I don't think that means he's morally justified in killing those people.
That's effectively what this comic is arguing, but in reverse.
Look, I hate Charlie Kirk as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean we need to say that assassinating him was a good and just call.
He can be a loathsome PoS, and shooting him to death extrajudicially can be a bad thing. Both those can be true at the same time.
Honestly, I'm kind of sick of arguing about it. What's done is done. The guy who most everyone says, "who died?" when they see it, has taken over the news cycle. Trumps fake ear injury didn't get this much press.