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I'm surprised how sad this news has made me. I think a large part of the reason is because of how young he was - most of his life just snuffed out like that - and that he has such a young family; his wife must be absolutely devastated and his kids will grow up without him and probably with very few memories of him. I can't begin to comprehend what it must feel like to lose a family member like this.

I'm not super familiar with Kirk, but as anyone who's found themselves scrolling YouTube shorts longer than they'd intended or really wanted to, I've come across quite a few clips of him debating on college campuses here and there. Agreed on some things, disagreed on others (especially religious issues), but that doesn't matter; from what I saw he was always for free and open discussion and debate, allowing his opponents to speak, and never using threats or violence to achieve his political ideals. If he's a target and you celebrate his death then I wonder if there's anyone on 'the other side' that you wouldn't like to see dead. And if this guy was your idea of a Nazi - some may genuinely believe this to be the case, most I suspect just cynically using it as a means to dehumanise their political rivals, in order to maintain a sense of self-righteousness - then I would suggest you have a rather warped definition of a Nazi that encompasses far too many people not just in America but throughout the world.