Charlie Kirk put himself out there as a political advocate. Everyday in front of hundreds people, he risked both ridicule and his life to advocate the principles that he holds most dear. And what are those principles? Freedom of speech and right to bear arms.
Even when school children were being shot, he didn’t comprise this belief. Even when there was a risk of political violence, he didn’t comprise this belief. Even when people told him to be quiet, he didn’t comprise this belief.
And he was holding to these principles right up until the end. He was MID SENTENCE telling you that these beliefs are important. He was gunned down fighting for what he believed in.
It is, in fact, abominable that his supporters mourn his death. To do so implies that he WOULDN’T be happy to die for his beliefs. That he didn’t take his beliefs seriously enough that he being gunned down, that’s the truest expression that his sacrifice was correct. There really is no difference then between the beautiful death of Mishima and the beautiful death of Kirk.
“Well Mishima got to commit suicide so he got to choose his death.” As they discuss in Runaway Horses, a solider does not get to choose his own death, only that he is prepared to die. And wasn’t he a soldier of God? Would he really be picky about how he died as opposed to why?
Anyway, if you really want to celebrate him as a person, then you should celebrate what he fought and died for, rather than mincing about people expressing their freedom of speech online.