On the twenty-fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we find ourselves once again looking at a senseless act and wondering if civil discourse is gone forever. Yesterday, a conservative leader and willing lightning-rod for liberals, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking with students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Kirk, 31, was co-founder of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization now active in over 3,500 college campuses. Best known for his “Prove Me Wrong” debates on college campuses, Kirk was “going back and forth” with a student about mass shootings involving transgendered people when he was shot. An Illinois native, Kirk was married and the father of two young children.