This was effectively an act of fanaticism-driven folly. In politics the worst thing you could ever do is to physically attack your opponent, and the absolute worst is to kill him, for you can not but make a martyr of him and thus a much greater and influential figure than he could have ever been while alive. The only true death of a politician is to reduce him to insignificance while alive. And this psychopath took out the one guy that was a dialogist moderate. Kirk will be revered from now own. And the rest of what's coming... is not good...