Charlie Kirk was not assassinated.
Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Charlie Kirk was not a public official covered by assassination statutes. There is no suggestion that the killer was motivated by a contract. Charlie Kirk lacked the public prominence to merit "assassination" in common usage.
Why does it matter?
Describing the murder of Charlie Kirk as an "assassination" gives Kirk a status that he did not have and does not merit. It also makes this instance of death by firearm seem unique, rather than yet another murder of this type in a society that refuses to deal with the issue.
www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/...
that, and Charlie Kirk was a misogynistic, racist, white-supremacist asshole, and we have the right to say so
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