Free Speech, Consequences, and the Celebration of Death

On the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated, America didn’t just lose a man. We lost a voice who believed in debate, in open dialogue, in putting ideas against one another instead of fists or bullets. And yet, before his family even had time to mourn, social media lit up with celebration. Laughter. Mockery. Dancing on the grave of a man killed in front of his wife and children.

For years, we’ve been told that conservatives are the danger to democracy. That our words are violent. That our beliefs are intolerable. We’ve watched as ordinary people lost jobs for supporting Trump, for opposing open borders, or for refusing to align with every demand of the LGBTQ lobby. Businesses were pressured. Boycotts were organized. Lives were ruined not because people committed crimes, but because they had the “wrong” opinion.

Now the tables have turned. Employees caught celebrating Kirk’s assassination online are finding themselves out of work. And suddenly, the very people who pioneered cancel culture are crying foul. They call it censorship. They call it an attack on free speech.

But let’s be clear: this is not a violation of the First Amendment. Free speech protects you from government punishment, not from the consequences of your own words in the public square. If you openly mock the murder of a husband and father, your employer has every right to say: that is not the kind of person we want representing our company.

And honestly? That’s not censorship. That’s accountability.

When Democrats spent years pushing boycotts against bakers, CEOs, and teachers who wouldn’t fall in line, it wasn’t called censorship then. It was called justice. When conservatives lost jobs, businesses, and platforms because they refused to toe the progressive line, it wasn’t called an attack on democracy. It was called consequences.

So let’s not pretend this is different. If anything, it’s the clearest example of karma you’ll ever see.

Here’s the truth: I don’t care where someone works, or what they believe about taxes, healthcare, or foreign policy. But if you laugh at a man’s assassination if you mock a father dying in front of his children you have disqualified yourself from basic decency. I don’t need to shop at your store. I don’t need to use your company’s services. I don’t need to help fund the paycheck of someone who thinks murder is funny.

And I won’t.

Because this isn’t about left or right. It’s not about Democrat or Republican. It’s about whether we, as a nation, have lost the ability to grieve for another human being simply because he wore the wrong label.

We will never heal as long as death is cheered and division is worshiped.

The left spent years demanding that conservatives be punished for their words. Now that the same fire touches their side, they suddenly discover the value of forgiveness and freedom. But forgiveness means nothing if it only applies to your tribe. Freedom means nothing if it only applies to your speech.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk revealed two Americas: one that mourns, prays, and remembers with dignity and one that mocks, sneers, and cheers for death.

Which America will you stand with?