It’s basic for any decent human being, Christian or otherwise, to feel some empathy for victims of violent crime like Charlie Kirk. To say that one doesn’t agree with his views while expressing such empathy is also a given.

However, we should not gloss over what Charlie Kirk stood for and did: contempt for immigrants, vilification of LGBTQ+, ridiculing the poor. His campus debates and speaking engagements weren’t a spectacle of enlightenment nor learning, he used it as an opportunity to prey on the vulnerabilities of students, humiliation was his style instead of persuasion. He became a millionaire by profiting off of his politics and ideology of hatred, marginalization, division and fear.

If your measure of what being a ‘Christian’ is aligns or fits with being like Charlie Kirk then you need some serious discernment and deep reflection.