Letters to the editor

No justification

Like a majority of People, I don’t really feel that Donald Trump is nor Charlie Kirk was racist.

Have been it not so despicable to observe, I’ll nearly really feel a modicum of sympathy for my acquaintances on the Left who’re nonetheless at this time everywhere in the web, radio and tv looking for any specious rationale to countenance chilly blooded homicide for political motives. Let me prevent all a while – there is no such thing as a such justification that any true American will settle for.

Nick McNulty

Windham, NH

Free speech

Kudos to the Boston Herald for its most up-to-date editorial (“Charlie Kirk’s homicide deserves just one response,” Sept. 12). Everybody of us has a proper to our views and opinions. We’re a free nation with free speech. Nonetheless, we’ve too many People who now not consider in civil discourse. They’re right and everybody else is working towards hate speech. These have gotten scary instances and the phrases of George Orwell come to thoughts: “The additional a society drifts from the reality, the extra it is going to hate those that communicate it.”

Charles Kirk was a provocateur and I by no means agreed with all  which he proclaimed however he had a proper to his opinion as all of us ought to.

Nobody needs to be celebrating his homicide however sadly there are a lot of who’re rejoicing in his demise. Yow will discover them on-line, within the legacy media and even amongst Democrats up on Capitol Hill.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated as a result of he had one thing to say not appreciated in America anymore by far too many. The Left on this nation in 2025 believes that Democracy dies in darkness or so they are saying.  Nonetheless, Democracy additionally 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 school,” Sept. 10.

I used to be deeply saddened to learn of the homicide of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. No matter how you’re feeling about his views, we as soon as lived in a nation the place you had the “proper” to be “mistaken” – the place you can categorical your opinions with out worry. As an alternative, Democrat “leaders” have constantly advocated violence since 2016 to attain their anti-American goals.

We’re devolving right into a banana republic the place violence is overtly inspired as a method to attain political goals which has severely polarized our nation. We’ve got forgotten the way to forgive and have dialogue which dehumanizes us all. Conflicts won’t ever be really resolved if violence is our solely means to take care of them.

This, greater than something, is destroying our democracy which seeks to resolve conflicts peacefully through debate as a substitute of by pressure. The homicide of Charlie Kirk needs to be a get up name for all People. Within the worlds of Abraham Lincoln; “A home divided towards itself can’t stand.”

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

Michael Pravica, Ph.D.

Acton