People pay their respects to Charlie Kirk at a makeshift memorial at the headquarters of his Turning Point USA in Phoenix. Not the make-believe, cities-overrun violence that has led to the military in our streets, but real, targeted political violence that has crept into society with increasing frequency. AdvertisementOur decline did not begin with the horrific slaying Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old father and conservative media superstar, and it will not end with it. We do need to ask ourselves how much political violence we are going to tolerate. AdvertisementBut the legacy of his death, and of political violence, can’t be crackdowns — because if we do that, we forever damage the country we all claim to love.