Let me start by saying this; I’m a pacifist. I don’t support war. I don’t support the death penalty. I don’t condone murder. There is no justice in any of it. There is no righteousness. It is not a solution to any problem.

Violence begets violence.

I will not, do not, condone the murder of Charlie Kirk. Nor do I mourn his passing.

The rhetoric he spewed was hateful. And it incited violence.

A man who insisted the murder of children is a price worth paying for the protection of the Second Amendment should neither be celebrated nor mourned. A man who lacked empathy and claimed it is a “new age term that does a lot of damage” should neither be mourned nor celebrated.

At a time in which basic decency seems to be dying, the world is likely better off in Charlie Kirk’s absence.

But violence begets violence and I strongly suspect we will witness more violence, possibly murder, in his name and in the name of the beliefs he vomited.

We can do better. The world need more empathy, not less. And it needs less violence and hate, not more.

I do no, will not, mourn his passing. But I do feel sympathy, empathy for those who subscribe to his hateful world view. How hurt must they be? How broken must their lives feel to seethe with such hatred?

The divisions of today began long before Charlie Kirk came on the scene and are rooted in multiple forces and numerous causes. No one person is to blame, nor should we blame the possibly millions of people who have fallen victim to the hateful beliefs of Charlie Kirk and his ilk.

Empathy and understanding is what is needed now. Not more hate and violence.

I could go on, but fear my point will grow muddled. Hopefully I have made my thoughts understood.