So a man claiming we need these shootings to maintain a right to defend ourselves against tyranny has died from someone exercising the right he protected while engaging in tyranny against a minority? Do I have that correct?
We don’t know that. This is tragic. Charlie Kirk was a man with strong opinions. He used words. Some lunatic used a bullet. This hatred for the other political parties has got to stop. We as people have to learn how to respect people and their opinions that we may not agree with.
Funny thing: when there's a mass shooting, you right-wingers blame a mentally ill lone gunman. But in this case, you're blaming ALL democrats. Doesn't that level of hypocrisy give you whiplash??
As for Charlie Kirk, he sacrificed his life for lax gun laws.
Further irony: Kirk rejects any empathy for or from his supporters.
"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that – it does a lot of damage." — Charlie Kirk on 'The Charlie Kirk Show', Oct. 12 2022
@sunsporter1649 OK, here are the Kirk quotes in context, along with some others.
"I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
Charlie Kirk at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church on April 5, 2023.
And Charlie Kirk did NOT want your empathy!
"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that – it does a lot of damage."
— Charlie Kirk on 'The Charlie Kirk Show', Oct. 12 2022
Kirk opposed the Civil Rights Act: "I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," Kirk said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s," he said at a December 2023 political conference hosted by his Turning Points USA group.
In a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, Kirk also reportedly compared pandemic vaccine requirements to apartheid. In a February 2024 Instagram post, he also talked about the "great replacement" -- a widely debunked conspiracy theory-- suggesting undocumented immigrants entering the United States to replace white Americans.
Overt racism: "I'm sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified,'" Kirk said during a 2024 podcast episode with fellow rightwing activist Jack Posobeic.
Republicans faked an assassination attempt and killed 2 people. Why wouldn't they sacrifice Kirk to blame Democrats? You seem to be fooled already and they haven't found the shooter or in this case professional marksman.
That Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while excusing gun violence standing under a banner that read "Prove Me Wrong" will always be fking hilarious to me.
Guns. And everyone here is GLEEFULLY chatting without the subject of gun control! Gaslighting the left! You got this. The anti violence people are totally crazy and out of power, poor and ready to let you blow each other away, but you are! Great.
@Bhs123 I think it's an inside Republican job. The Republican Party no longer exist in America, so I think the Republicans were trying to take their country back and maybe they started with Charlie. Gee, I wonder who's next?
