also this quote from an actual principled anti-slavery person:
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
- John Brown
Kirk was an insufferable, hateful prick but yeah to be honest I’m frustrated he was murdered. And/or didn’t survive his wounds.
My naive pipe dream was, if we ever got them, Nuremberg trials where he was put on the stand then got the wall. Or at least in the meantime that he lived and could suffer, and maybe think on his actions and words.
Arguably, while his words did have impact, he was in no position to actually enact any of the heinous policy he wanted like elected officials. He also didn’t buy an entire social media platform, or (to my knowledge) openly bribe politicians and voters.
If someone were to go that extreme (as a hypothetical, for legal purposes), the bullet could have been much better spent on any number of other top-level MAGAts.
TL;DR: I agree with you.