Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts and prayers. But to be fair, shall not be infringed. He was blessed to get to experience what those slaughtered elementary students felt, though. "Walk a mile in my shoes. Feel what I feel..."

👍 and all that.

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Anonymous wrote:So, has the 48-hour rule been waived?

It takes reporting comments that violate it for it to be enforced.

Moderators are busy moderating and asked us not to report for now since it slows down the moderating.

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Anonymous wrote:Awful. RIP. Can’t we all take a breather. This political climate is scary and not sustainable.

Agree. I hope some level-headed leader(s) will speak up.

That person was shot today.

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Anonymous wrote:This looks like a professional hit. Not an easy shot to take. Maybe it was his handlers who needed to get rid of him.

Maybe he was popular on college campi and a skilled speaker who would talk to anyone who showed up and democrats have no counter, so they assassinated him.

For the sake of your family, get help.

For speaking the truth?

He was kind of an idiot that used some gotcha techniques on undergrads. He was of no political threat to anyone. Aside from the clear paranoia and delusion you have to be experiencing to think this, don’t you think that if the Democrats were going to have someone assassinated they’d assassinate someone important enough to be threatening?

This is crazy talk.

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Ah, so now I get it. some right wing influences are (falsely) alleging on Twitter/X that there are celebrations on Bluesky, and those lies are being parroted on this thread

https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3lyj5ucjwx22x

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Anonymous wrote:He was most definitely not my kind of guy, but we are devolving into a situation where regular shootings and attempts at political violence are becoming normalized or at least common, and I find that very disturbing.

+1 this is dysfunctional and chaotic.

Kirk was the most milquetoast of the pundits. He would talk with and listen to anyone who wanted to talk to him.

Gun ownership is a right and different than murdering an innocent with a gun.

Why liberals are snarky and sarcastic about this is beyond me; it’s not what we do in our country.

omg you have to be joking. Do you plug your ears when Trump speaks? Not see his tweets?

We don’t kill peoples we disagree with. At least most of us don’t. Democrats seem fine with it.

Did you hear about the killing of Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman in Minnesota? Or her husband or colleague by a Republican supporter?

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And stuff like this that does not make national news

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/man-drives-crowd-protesters-no-kings-rally-virginia

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3 kids died today in CO school shooting. That is horrifying and news.

Charlie Kirk dying is who cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine your innocent teenager was shot and killed at school today and THIS is what people are upset about? WTF. It doesn’t have to be one or the other but apparently is. My heart breaks for the parents of those teens.

Yep. 32 pages of comments and counting for the Charlie Kirk thread. No posts for the school shooting. Shows where their priorities are (entertainment as politics)

This thread is dedicated to the gun violence that he was part of enabling. The gun violence that those teenagers suffered today.

Because someone supports the Second Amendment and gun rights they deserve the death penalty? Got it.

Kirk said we have to accept some people will die so we can have 2A. I guess you could see him as a martyr, then.

Pp is just gloating bc they think it’s funny Charlie was a supporter of 2nd amendment rights.

He wouldn’t have changed his position even if he knew he was going to be shot. He was unafraid of stating his views. He knew he was a target. If you were a follower of his, you’d know that.

Great, so where’s the problem? He wa ready to die for what he believed in.

+1 not gloating. Just stating the obvious.

I abhor guns and gun violence. Kirk was willing to accept it so that he could carry a gun.

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Anonymous wrote:Awful. RIP. Can’t we all take a breather. This political climate is scary and not sustainable.

And before the Right starts blaming this on the Left, note that the ADL (hardly a darling of the left these days) determined that all 61 political killings in the US were perpetrated by right-wing extremists. All of them.

"Politics behind both individual shootings and massacres
Politics have also driven large-scale massacres. Gunmen who killed 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, 23 shoppers at a heavily Latino Walmart in El Paso in 2019 and 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store in 2022 each cited the conspiracy theory that a secret cabal of Jews were trying to replace white people with people of color. That has become a staple on parts of the right that support Trump’s push to limit immigration.

The Anti-Defamation League found that from 2022 through 2024, all of the 61 political killings in the United States were committed by right-wing extremists. That changed on the first day of 2025, when a Texas man flying the flag of the Islamic State group killed 14 people by driving his truck through a crowded New Orleans street before being fatally shot by police."

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/political-violence-us-history/507-e2a22573-32ab-4399-887a-5d4050e34da5

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Anonymous wrote:He was most definitely not my kind of guy, but we are devolving into a situation where regular shootings and attempts at political violence are becoming normalized or at least common, and I find that very disturbing.

+1 this is dysfunctional and chaotic.

Kirk was the most milquetoast of the pundits. He would talk with and listen to anyone who wanted to talk to him.

Gun ownership is a right and different than murdering an innocent with a gun.

Why liberals are snarky and sarcastic about this is beyond me; it’s not what we do in our country.

omg you have to be joking. Do you plug your ears when Trump speaks? Not see his tweets?

We don’t kill peoples we disagree with. At least most of us don’t. Democrats seem fine with it.

Don't be absurd. Did you even read what you wrote? Most Democrats don't kill people they disagree with either, obviously. The vast, vast majority of people of all political persuasions denounce political violence. It's outliers on both sides who engage in this sort of activity.

Statements like yours only contribute to the problem of an "us v. them" mentality.

Just going off of the last election Democrats are 75,000,000 PEOPLE. Human beings with different values and experiences, we can’t take this route, it is unhealthy for this country.

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Anonymous wrote:This looks like a professional hit. Not an easy shot to take. Maybe it was his handlers who needed to get rid of him.

Maybe he was popular on college campi and a skilled speaker who would talk to anyone who showed up and democrats have no counter, so they assassinated him.

For the sake of your family, get help.

For speaking the truth?

He was kind of an idiot that used some gotcha techniques on undergrads. He was of no political threat to anyone. Aside from the clear paranoia and delusion you have to be experiencing to think this, don’t you think that if the Democrats were going to have someone assassinated they’d assassinate someone important enough to be threatening?

This is crazy talk.

He was an extremely conservative ultra-right winger. He was not a traditional conservative in any sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine your innocent teenager was shot and killed at school today and THIS is what people are upset about? WTF. It doesn’t have to be one or the other but apparently is. My heart breaks for the parents of those teens.

Yep. 32 pages of comments and counting for the Charlie Kirk thread. No posts for the school shooting. Shows where their priorities are (entertainment as politics)

This thread is dedicated to the gun violence that he was part of enabling. The gun violence that those teenagers suffered today.

Because someone supports the Second Amendment and gun rights they deserve the death penalty? Got it.

It’s worth the cost right?

I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

As a long time fan of his, I can affirm he would still stand by that statement even now.

He was murdered by a person. A hateful person that wanted him silenced.

Yes. RIP Charlie. His daughter idolized him. This is devastating.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for his kids. But I always feel bad for the kids who are made to suffer the adults' 2A idiocy.

Dude will recover and make a fortune. His kids will be fine.

He’s dead.

You keep saying that but no reputable source has reported it yet

WSJ says he’s dead. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot

His whole schtick was sitting down and talking to people who disagreed with him. This is horrific.

No it wasn’t. He routinely refused to debate with people who held opposing views.

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That was a hit! That was professional.

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jsteele wrote:We are now enforcing the 48 hour rule. Please do not post negative remarks about Charlie Kirk.

So basically this thread will go dormant, because what else is there to say about him other than he had two sweet children.