Writing for RealClearPolitics, David DesRosiers writes with favor about Tyler Robinson's parents, and about Mormon family life more generally. He observes:
Charlie Kirk’s assassin was born and raised in southwestern Utah. Mormon territory. He was the son of a mother and father who raised kids in the Mormon way, which creates exemplary fruits that are missionaries to the world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – its formal name – instills family loyalty, stewardship, tolerance, sobriety, hard work, and sharing. They tithe. They contribute. They are impressive people.
The other DrC and I have owned a home in a predominantly LDS area for over 30 years. Not LDS ourselves, we nevertheless would agree with the above. The LDS families we know fit that description.
Would Luigi Mangione’s wealthy and well-connected Maryland family have done the same if they recognized his distinctive eyebrows? “Come home, son,” followed by, “You must turn yourself in to the authorities and be held accountable.” There’s no evidence they did anything of the kind. If they had, would Luigi have complied? I doubt it.
Good families occasionally produce a loser kid, the elder Robinson's have my sympathy. I know they are heartbroken.
