Transcript (en)

I want to focus a bit on Charlie's murder. The fact that he died not with a gun in his hand, not a knife in his hand, not a grenade in his hand, not exercising violence, but with a means of communication in his hand. In witnessing that, whether consciously or not, I think we understand something fundamental is endangered. He liked to go to campuses. He would express his point of view. Then he had him a microphone. He'd say, come on up and argue with me. Come up and debate with me. Prove me wrong. And that's exactly what he was doing the day he died. He was speaking with someone more liberally minded. and in the very act of doing that, he was murdered. This unnerves us, and it should unnerve us, because something in our Western civilization is threatened thereby. Something I love that Charlie Kirk used to say, he'd be challenged by a kid who would say, what are you doing here on campus? Why are you here? He would say, when people stop talking to each other, bad things happen. When people in a relationship stop talking, divorce happens. When a society stops talking, civil war happens. Quite right, it seems to me. And that stretches right back to Socrates and provides a foundation for our society.