I'm starting to see a few op-eds where the writer is disingenuously extolling Charlie Kirk's willingness to go to people and have them confront him. The message, of course, is that he was putting himself out there and the left wasn't engaging him honestly.
Charlie Kirk was not engaging in dialog. He was doing what loudmouths do - he was going to universities, setting up shop in the middle of the school's quad, and challenging whoever would pick up the mike to speak to justify themselves to him. The videos are all out there for people to see: that isn't having a dialog, it's debate by combat and there is direct correlation between that style of debate and unjustified violence. Charlie Kirk was not a hero, not even to his fellow conservatives. He was an opportunist who was using his activism as a means to build a business and raise his profile and at the expense of creating a meaningful exchange on the issues that mattered to people.