No justification

Like a majority of Americans, I do not feel that Donald Trump is nor Charlie Kirk was racist.

Were it not so despicable to watch, I may almost feel a modicum of sympathy for my acquaintances on the Left who are still today all over the internet, radio and television trying to find any specious rationale to countenance cold blooded murder for political motives. Let me save you all some time – there is no such justification that any true American will accept.

Nick McNulty

Windham, NH

Free speech

Kudos to the Boston Herald for its most recent editorial (“Charlie Kirk’s murder deserves only one reaction,” Sept. 12). Everyone of us has a right to our views and opinions. We are a free country with free speech. However, we have too many Americans who no longer believe in civil discourse. They are correct and everyone else is practicing hate speech. These are becoming scary times and the words of George Orwell come to mind: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”

Charles Kirk was a provocateur and I never agreed with all  which he proclaimed but he had a right to his opinion as we all should.

No one should be celebrating his murder but unfortunately there are many who are rejoicing in his demise. You can find them online, in the legacy media and even among Democrats up on Capitol Hill.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated because he had something to say not appreciated in America anymore by far too many. The Left in this nation in 2025 believes that Democracy dies in darkness or so they say.  However, Democracy also dies when voices get silenced.

Sal Giarratani

East Boston

Political violence

Re: ” Conservative activist Charlie Kirk fatally shot in act of ‘political assassination’ at Utah college,” Sept. 10.

I was deeply saddened to read of the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Regardless of how you feel about his views, we once lived in a nation where you had the “right” to be “wrong” – where you could express your opinions without fear. Instead, Democrat “leaders” have consistently advocated violence since 2016 to achieve their anti-American aims.

We are devolving into a banana republic where violence is openly encouraged as a means to achieve political aims which has seriously polarized our nation. We have forgotten how to forgive and have dialogue which dehumanizes us all. Conflicts will never be truly resolved if violence is our only means to deal with them.

This, more than anything, is destroying our democracy which seeks to resolve conflicts peacefully via debate instead of by force. The murder of Charlie Kirk should be a wake up call for all Americans. In the worlds of Abraham Lincoln; “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

May God have mercy on our struggling and divided nation. I proffer my deepest sympathies to Charlie Kirk’s family.

Michael Pravica, Ph.D.

Acton