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Calculated Shard: 169 (from laksa119)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa169.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial\/","crawl_time":1774123101,"first_indexed_time":1757677539,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,dailycamera!www,\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial\/ s443","src_root_hash":"10739313917175409569","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Charlie Kirk’s murder deserves only one reaction (Editorial)","meta_descriptions":["The line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Charlie Kirk ever did."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"There is only one appropriate reaction to \nthe murder of Charlie Kirk\n and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life.\nWe live in a nation where the freedom to express ideas is foundational to our society, to our democracy and to our American soul.\nWe do not know the motive of Kirk’s assassin, but it is reasonable to believe that the killer wanted \nto silence his voice,\n to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence.\nIt was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet.\nPolitical analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause.\nThe internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe.\nThere were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division.\nBut the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did.\nKirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them.\nMany of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening?\nKirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age.\nNow he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next?\nThese are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize.\nJustice in the law is the only answer now. 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voice,](https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/09\/10\/who-is-charlie-kirk-activist-has-been-key-in-growing-support-for-gop-among-the-young\/) to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence.\n\nIt was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet.\n\nPolitical analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause.\n\nThe internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe.\n\nThere were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division.\n\nBut the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did.\n\nKirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them.\n\nMany of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening?\n\nKirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age.\n\nNow he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next?\n\nThese are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize.\n\nJustice in the law is the only answer now. The nation needs an arrest, an exposure of the motive and a unified voice that this is never, ever acceptable.\n\nIn the meantime, the most appropriate feeling is sadness for a dead man’s widow and children and for a nation gripped in terrible division.\n\n*— The Dallas Morning News*\n\n*To send a letter to the editor about this article,* [*submit online*](https:\/\/prairiemountain.forms-db.com\/view.php?id=119382) *or check out our* [*guidelines*](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2019\/04\/25\/opinion-submission-guidelines\/) *for how to submit by email or mail.*\n\n### Share this:\n- [Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial\/?share=facebook&nb=1)\n- [Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial\/?share=reddit&nb=1)\n- [Share on X (Opens in new window) X](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirks-murder-deserves-only-one-reaction-editorial\/?share=twitter&nb=1)\n- Click to share a free article with a friend\n## RevContent Feed\n\n[![Greenlight Coupons - Front Range Colorado Coupons](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/greenlightcoupons-2026.gif)](https:\/\/greenlightsavings.com\/AdEverywhere\/SI\/PR\/MC\/?s=greenlight&utm_campaign=GreenlightCoupons&utm_medium=RightRail300x100&utm_source=DailyCamera&utm_content=homepagepromo-tile)\n\n## Most Popular\nMost Popular\n\n- ### Residents who lost 4 dogs, home in south Longmont fire grapple with grief\n  [Residents who lost 4 dogs, home in south Longmont fire grapple with grief](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/21\/south-collyer-fire-dogs-longmont\/)\n- ### Longmont police fatally shoot woman after she brandished gun, officials say\n  [Longmont police fatally shoot woman after she brandished gun, officials say](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/east-third-longmont-police-shooting\/)\n- ### Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center property could go up for sale\n  [Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center property could go up for sale](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/boulder-spiritual-center-unity-church-housing-development\/)\n- ### CU Boulder asks to run NCAR with partner universities if it’s dismantled\n  [CU Boulder asks to run NCAR with partner universities if it's dismantled](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/cu-boulder-ncar-universities-restructure\/)\n- ### Man gets life in prison for killing woman whose remains were found near Lyons\n  [Man gets life in prison for killing woman whose remains were found near Lyons](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/19\/prison-lyons-remains-murder-denver\/)\n- ### Juvenile dead after shooting at Longmont apartment complex\n  [Juvenile dead after shooting at Longmont apartment complex](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/18\/longmont-shooting-cloverbasin-apartments\/)\n- ### Longmont teenager faces murder charge in stepbrother’s death\n  [Longmont teenager faces murder charge in stepbrother’s death](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/longmont-apartment-shooting-boy-killed\/)\n- ### Mandatory evacuations ordered in 24 fire burning on Fort Carson in Colorado\n  [Mandatory evacuations ordered in 24 fire burning on Fort Carson in Colorado](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/fort-carson-wildfire-colorado\/)\n- ### Erie tells residents, HOAs, businesses: Keep sprinkler systems off until April\n  [Erie tells residents, HOAs, businesses: Keep sprinkler systems off until April](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/erie-bans-sprinklers-irrigation-water\/)\n- ### Illinois prepped to face stingy CU Buffs defense in NCAA Tournament\n  [Illinois prepped to face stingy CU Buffs defense in NCAA Tournament](https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/03\/20\/colorado-buffs-womens-basketball-ncaa-tourney-illinois\/)\n## Events\n\n## More in Editorials\n- [![Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin may reduce the amount of water delivered during the spring runoff to just a third of normal. 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All rights reserved. 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That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause.\n\nThe internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe.\n\nThere were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division.\n\nBut the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did.\n\nKirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them.\n\nMany of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening?\n\nKirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age.\n\nNow he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next?\n\nThese are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize.\n\nJustice in the law is the only answer now. 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Boilerpipe Text	There is only one appropriate reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation where the freedom to express ideas is foundational to our society, to our democracy and to our American soul. We do not know the motive of Kirk’s assassin, but it is reasonable to believe that the killer wanted to silence his voice, to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence. It was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet. Political analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause. The internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe. There were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division. But the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did. Kirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them. Many of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening? Kirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age. Now he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next? These are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize. Justice in the law is the only answer now. The nation needs an arrest, an exposure of the motive and a unified voice that this is never, ever acceptable. In the meantime, the most appropriate feeling is sadness for a dead man’s widow and children and for a nation gripped in terrible division. — The Dallas Morning News To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail. RevContent Feed
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There is only one appropriate reaction to [the murder of Charlie Kirk](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/09/10/conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-university-event-nbc-news-reports/) and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation where the freedom to express ideas is foundational to our society, to our democracy and to our American soul. We do not know the motive of Kirk’s assassin, but it is reasonable to believe that the killer wanted [to silence his voice,](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/09/10/who-is-charlie-kirk-activist-has-been-key-in-growing-support-for-gop-among-the-young/) to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence. It was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet. Political analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause. The internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe. There were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division. But the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did. Kirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them. Many of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening? Kirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age. Now he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next? These are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize. Justice in the law is the only answer now. The nation needs an arrest, an exposure of the motive and a unified voice that this is never, ever acceptable. 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Readable Markdown	There is only one appropriate reaction to [the murder of Charlie Kirk](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/09/10/conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-university-event-nbc-news-reports/) and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation where the freedom to express ideas is foundational to our society, to our democracy and to our American soul. We do not know the motive of Kirk’s assassin, but it is reasonable to believe that the killer wanted [to silence his voice,](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/09/10/who-is-charlie-kirk-activist-has-been-key-in-growing-support-for-gop-among-the-young/) to shut out his ideas and to end his long debate, not with different ideas but with violence. It was shocking and disgusting, if hardly surprising, to see how quickly some were to place blame for Kirk’s killing at his own feet. Political analyst Matthew Dowd took to MSNBC to say that Kirk’s hateful words had led to hateful actions. That logic twists in on itself as a justification for political violence against anyone whose expressions one might deem harmful or hateful to one’s own cause. The internet was filled, as it always is, with such tripe. There were many things Charlie Kirk said that we took great issue with. He was a promoter of conspiracies who used his powerful platform in ways that too often advanced division. But the line between speech and violence is clear. The assassin who took Kirk’s life Wednesday has placed our nation in far greater danger than Kirk ever did. Kirk’s worst ideas always had an antidote: the speech and ideas of those who oppose them. Many of his ideas, meanwhile, resonated with audiences who support traditional understandings of marriage and family. Did the killer ever think to ask why so many people were listening? Kirk was a provocateur, no doubt. Some of his ideas were terrible. Some were worth considering. Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age. Now he’s dead, the victim of an evil violence that threatens to spill over in yet more violence. A palpable fear got a strong grip with news of his death. Will there be violence in return? Who will get hurt next? These are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise. They solve nothing. They only sow pain and chaos that threaten to metastasize. Justice in the law is the only answer now. The nation needs an arrest, an exposure of the motive and a unified voice that this is never, ever acceptable. In the meantime, the most appropriate feeling is sadness for a dead man’s widow and children and for a nation gripped in terrible division. — The Dallas Morning News To send a letter to the editor about this article, [submit online](https://prairiemountain.forms-db.com/view.php?id=119382) or check out our [guidelines](https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/04/25/opinion-submission-guidelines/) for how to submit by email or mail. ## RevContent Feed
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