Trying to follow an assassin's bullet with a character assassination is just a hopeless crusade.
One would think that Kirk's supporters would be thrilled to see his views getting so much more attention now. Bit of shame that quite a lot of his views were so offensive. In the midst of attempts to martyrize him those are the bits which naturally draw reasonable scrutiny; trying to liken that to assassination is rather pathetic on your part.
Out of all the people of his philosophy, this was the guy who wasn't afraid to go on campus and debate. You're not walking into this debate prepared, but being dumped into it by a world event.
From what I've seen there was little if any debate going on in any of Kirk's shows. Taking this as an example, I don't know Kirk's personal views on sexual education but as a conservative and self-described Christian I'd guess that they largely align with conservative efforts to prevent sex education for pre-teens if not remove it from schools altogether: But it seems that as soon as he found it convenient to try to score some nonsense rhetorical 'point' that all went out the window and
he's insisting that a 10 year old rape victim should be graphically informed about all the consequences of the attack in the most grotesque possible way. Is that actually a view that Kirk held (making him a bad person) or was this just a bad-faith effort to talk over his interlocuter and rush them into saying something he could say 'gotcha' on?
From the handful of interactions I've seen he didn't go on campuses to debate in any meaningful sense - let alone in good faith - he went to put on a show and was well-rehearsed to essentially bully college kids who'd naively expected a genuine conversation, whenever he felt it was opportune to do so.
KIRK: Abortion is not a victimless crime. The point is, how you were conceived is irrelevant to what human rights you get. If a person conceived in rape walks down the side of the street, it's not like they don't get First Amendment rights or Second Amendment rights.
MAREN: It's not about that person —
KIRK talking over her: The worst thing to do to that daughter is to then say, "Hey, we're going to go murder the being inside of you."
MAREN: They wouldn't even know — like, listen.
KIRK talking over her again: They wouldn't know?
MAREN: Listen, listen, listen.
KIRK still talking over her: But wouldn't it be a better story to say....