Kirk was a provocateur with divisive opinions. He was not someone looking for common ground. That is like saying Michael Moore is unbiased and just trying to find the truth
Funny you use those (empty) words - divisive and provocateur.
Let's find any relevant/prominent leftist who have discussed "divisive" and "provocative" topics to what 75-80% of the USA thinks; trans rights, the gradations on abortion access and rights, medical vaccinations and such…if someone from the other side who was super secular, hedonistic and talked about all those issues (let's say a Dean Withers) and he god forbid had this situation occur, would you use the same words to justify or soften the fact that it happened? Despite, in the context of this hypothetical, his views were actually much more radical? His political affiliation was the one, in present time, committing most of the violence?
Back and Charlie- divisive…because? He held values that many do, and that until 15 years ago, were not divisive? The goal post/definition reframing of this shit is so tiring.
He was provocative guy because he stepped into liberal bastions and dared to debate people based on his beliefs and views? He stood his ground and angled to make a change in our youth towards conservatism?
He's divisive because???? What he espoused traditional conservative values? The woman should serve the man? They both should serve god? In the countless hours of debates, podcasts I'd heard him speak he never once said anything that was offensive or inappropriate; he started hard conversations backed by stats, data and his personal beliefs that, sure, you could NOT like…but to attach words to him like that, especially after what happened, is exactly why people are sick of this bullshit retardation from leftists (I would assume you're one?) who control language and shift definitions to justify their positions and actions.
What else? He was staunch believe in pro-life ideology…OH BUT HE SAID HE WOULD MAKE HIS YOUNG DAUGHTGER GO TO TERM WITH A CHILD IF RAPED…ok…what's the context of THAT answer to the obvious GOTCHA the debater was trying to employ? You can disagree with his point there sure, but what's the context for WHY he is pro life? His love for his daughter and child, and that the life inside her wouldn't matter?
Or he said that gun deaths a year were the price to pay for the 2A? Whats the context behind that? People are dense enough to think, and again this shows they didn't really know Charlie's opinions, that he was just totally COOL with shootings so that he could have "mah guns" - no he explicitly said, backed with data and stats, that he never wants one school or violent shooting - but he approach the gun violence issue from a mental health issue NOT a gun issue. Look who killed him?
One can disagree, hell I don't think I'd agree either with everything he said, but it's bullshit like this where people try to cherry pick and reframe out of context things the man said to justify why.
It's utterly dishonest and disheartening to see that there are enough people who would tacitly make less of what happened to him just because he held values and beliefs that you don't agree with. It's a lighter version of - "well he deserved it because he said things I don't like"