..respectfully resist Kirk's legacy. He said many horrible things that should not be sugar-coated, but he didn't deserve to die for it, especially on a college campus where civil discourse is paramount to innovation.

..literature around those concerns to better refine a proposal into actionable policy backed by pluralistic evidence.

It's ironic to feel empathy toward someone who debated that empathy was toxic to his vision of the American way of life and would probably hate that I've done so, but I must..

..alone, and the over 45,000 victims of gun violence deaths in the US EVERY YEAR.

Your legacy cannot stop me from reaching across to people I disagree with and investing the time to earnestly listen to their concerns and limitations toward my proposed solutions and critically review the..

..legacy cannot stop me from turning my thoughts and prayers into actionable faith by advocating for common sense gun laws to protect gun violence victims like yourself, the two school children of Colorado that also died that day on the US's 100th school shooting just 3/4ths through this year..

death, state and federal House Speakers and their families, poll workers, capital police officers, embassy workers, civilian casualties in the Putin/Ukraine and Netanyahu/Hamas wars, ICE detainees, educators, transgender kids, and even our current sitting president among so many others.

Your..

..toward you along with the wife and two children you left behind without a husband and father.

Your legacy cannot stop me from acknowledging our shared humanity along with victims of political violence including the HBCU students and faculty that received terrorism threats soon after your death..

Regardless of the barriers thrown at us, it is the responsibility of healthcare providers to work with their patients to determine the treatment best for our patients’ health and for educators to work with their students to determine the course content best for our students’ learning.

Even then, asking the courts to not even investigate the matter is suspicious as hell. They probably are guilty of exploiting multiple teachers in similar ways or maybe even something worse if they’re panicking over the state even looking into the issue.

It’s one thing to claim a “minister” doesn’t uphold the values of your sect, it’s an entirely different thing to fire a teacher for reporting all their worked hours when you want to exploit younger employees for unpaid labor.

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