What Charlie Kirk’s Death Means to Gen Z, by Kayla Agnos

Charlie Kirk was a father, a husband, a friend to many, and now has become a martyr for the truth. At 31, his life has been stolen, but a legacy of devotion and faith has been left in its place.

Kirk has always been a symbol of free speech. He also was someone who represented speaking out for what one believes in; not being afraid to stand against the masses and share the truth for the betterment of our world and nation. A person with an unfathomable amount of hatred and evil in his heart assassinated him in an attempt to silence his voice and his message, not realizing that Kirk’s life story and the morals he stood for will only be magnified due to this tragedy.

I feel such unexplainable grief at this time. I mourn for his wife, who one day will have to explain the evil of the world to her precious children, who will have to grow up only knowing their father through the words he left behind. I cannot communicate the heaviness of my heart for the current state of this world. The amount of evil the world holds is completely incomprehensible. Though I’ve been aware of that for a long time now, it seems it takes watching someone you love and admire being brutally murdered on live television for it to fully sink in. …