After reading up a bit, one quote really stuck out from the extremist right's latest martyr

[DFW]

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

--Charlie Kirk

Well, he got his wish. Was it "worth it?" Too bad we can't ask him now.

"Die ich rief, die Geister, werde ich nun nicht mehr los"--Goethe from Der Zauberlehrling (the Sorcerer's Apprentice)
"The spirits that I summoned, I can now no longer be rid of them."

[Silent Type]

1. It ain't just the Kirks and GOPers who believe that nowadays, sadly. If we could just control guns, racism,

bigotry, and greed, we’d pretty much have it made.

[DFW]

3. We do have it in our power to control guns to a limited degree

Racism, bigotry and greed have been around for millennia. Controlling them is a utopian goal--not a reason to stop the effort, but it is not realistic to think it will ever be achieved.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Excellent quote from a Substack article posted by another DUer

“But compassion is a muscle. Fail to exercise it for others, and you cannot expect it to be exercised for you. If he offered no tears for the slain, why should the public be compelled to offer them for him?”

https://cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-31-shot-dead-in-utah

[ret5hd]

4. also, he stated children should watch executions...

got his wish there.

and just an aside, what’s so damn bad about being killed if you go to heaven? sounds like an upgrade to me.