One year ago today, Charlie Kirk was shot dead in front of thousands of university students for the crime of listening and answering. He was 31. A husband, a father of two little kids who will grow up watching their dad on a screen. 

He built his life on one idea: that free people can argue face to face without fear. He didn’t run from the hecklers, he handed them the microphone. The coward who killed him wanted to shut him up, and instead made his voice louder than it had ever been. Political violence has no place in a free country. Never has. Never will. Rest in peace Charlie Kirk.