In Michigan, police have arrested a thirty-three-year-old man named Harlan Drake on murder charges for allegedly killing two men Friday, including a longtime anti-abortion activist. The activist, James Pouillon, was shot to death while staging a protest in front of the Owosso High School. President Obama and several pro-choice groups condemned the killing. This shooting comes just months after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed while attending church near his home in Wichita, Kansas.

There is simply no logic to violence as a means of voicing dissent. It does little but to silence rational debate. Further, those who adopt this strategy as their own are quickly ignored or discredited by those they seek to convert. Sadly, it is a lesson many of us have yet to learn.