I don’t have much to say about the shooting of right wing propagandist Charlie Kirk beyond what has been said. I suppose politicians–at least Democratic politicians–have to make the obligatory remarks about avoiding political violence (if, in fact, this was the shooter’s motivation). At the same time, Kirk, in his short life, was a loathsome hatemonger and bigot (here’s just a sample), and yet much of the coverage will not explicitly describe what he believed in (to the extent he wasn’t just being cynical). But those are points that will be covered extensively by others.

One thing that did occur to me, in celebration of the mainland colony of the District of Columbia regaining control over its police force today (though with Mayor Bowser, I’m not sure one can really tell the difference), is Pirro’s decision to no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in D.C.–which is D.C. law–isn’t looking so great right now. Because no one at a D.C. protest ever gets het up about politics.

As Idaho lawmakers discovered, playing will guns is fun until it’s in your workplace, then it’s not so fun anymore. And no one really wants people showing up with rifles to political protests.