Bella Ciao

The lad who murdered Charlie Kirk left some empty shells and unfired bullets behind him, scratched with his musings on the atrocity he was planning. One read Fascist, catch!, which is pretty clear. Another is apt to bewilder an American audience: Bella ciao, which means Goodbye beautiful. It's the title and refrain of a partisan song still sung in Italy on the anniversary of the 1943-45 rising against Mussolini and the German occupation. One verse translates like this:

And if I die a partisan / Oh goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful bye-bye / And if I die a partisan / Then you must bury me.

Tyler Robinson may get his wish for death, since Utah does have capital punishment. In the spirit of Charlie Kirk, though, instead of hoping for lethal injection, we'd do better to support Mr Kirk's charity, Turning Point USA. He believed in honest and open debate and was practicing it when the "assassin's veto" silenced him forever.