Enough Killing

Twenty-four years after September 11, 2001 and just hours after an apparently political murder of right wing agitator Charlie Kirk, it seems right to resurrect this image.

The "Enough Killing" sign was my household's instinctive response to 9/11. Within a week, we'd made and distributed these to anyone who would display them. Here in San Franciscon, there were quite a few who did.

We knew the New York and DC terrorist attacks would unleash yet more responsive violence; the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were our country's mad answer to the atrocity by the terrorists. Hundreds of thousands in faraway places died in answer to the Twin Towers. (The photo is of my then-church marching in a peace procession in 2006; the blonde child is a full grown man now.)

Charlie Kirk will not be missed by those of us who were his targets. But Enough Killing remains what we all need to find as a path forward..