Charlie Kirk's last words

[Just_Vote_Dem]

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience members asked. Kirk responded: “Too many.”

The questioner followed up: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked.

Then he was shot.

I don't condone violence, but jeez, what an asshole...

[Irish_Dem]

1. The last words out of his mouth were hateful ugly lies.

Lies that hurt and damage people and our country.
And incite violence.

[AZJonnie]

6. This!

[maliaSmith]

24. Kirk shooting aftermath

Ugly woman Nancy Mace said it was a far left liberal who shot him. She's a disgusting sick woman.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Yes even her own staff hates her and says she is disgusting.

[democratsruletheday]

2. Buh BYE Chuck....

we hardly knew ye

[sop]

3. No condoning his shooting, but I'm having a really hard time finding any sympathy for this guy.

[Iris]

23. Based on his views of marriage, she may be better off in the long run.

[Bengus81]

26. I felt sorry for his wife and children when he was alive...........

[valleyrogue]

33. They were there. Not a good thing to witness.

I am just not going to grave dance. This was absolutely horrible.

Let's hope the perp is caught soon.

What surprises me is not so much Charlie Kirk was murdered, but that so few right-wing political figures have been since Trump took office in January.

Something tells me it won't be the last.

[pat_k]

40. I grieve for the manner of death as a reflection of the intolerable level of gun violence in America

No gun death is acceptable, including Charlie Kirk's.

However, as we should all know by now, on April 5, 2023, Charlie Kirk told us that gun deaths in America – which are 11 TIMES the number of gun deaths per capita in other high-income nations, driven primarily by a firearm homicide rate that is 25 TIMES that of comparable nations* – are an acceptable “cost” of their "righteous," extremist, reactionary opposition to ALL gun regulation, no matter how modest the measure or how many lives the measure would save.

"I think it's worth it. 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."

I suspect that it never occurred to him that he would be one of those deaths he believed are "worth it."

While I grieve the manner of his death as a tragic reflection of the intolerable level of gun violence in our nation, I do not grieve the loss of a man who called for some "amazing patriot" to bail out Paul Pelosi’s attacker.

Link to tweet

Clarence Darrow’s quote comes to mind:

“I've never wished a man dead, but I've read some obituaries with great pleasure”

*2015 numbers

[Akakoji]

4. Doesn't matter who shot Charlie Kirk, or What he said

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It will not go down well in this country. They won't step back. They won't de-escalate. They will use this to justify an escalation. In Congress it started within minutes of his death. Democrats are somehow being blamed.

[FirstLight]

10. Yep he will become a martyr, it's already begun

Trump lowering the flags to half-staff is a huge sign. Not saying we're going to have a civil war, but.... It doesn't look good.

And as another person said on a different thread, he didn't believe in empathy so I will follow that ...

I guess I am not as enlightened as I think I am. Because I'm finding some very angry and bitter thoughts in my brain. Did you see Trump lower the flags to half staff for the representative and her husband that were killed in Minnesota? He wouldn't even dignify Governor Walz with a phone call. Fuck all of them.

[pat_k]

41. Whitmer, and it sounds like other Democratic governors, have ordered flags lowered

Link to an article about Whitmer's order at the end of this message. I haven't confirmed who else, but frankly, I'm appalled.

He wasn't a federal or state government official or military member, so one can't claim either of those as a reason for ordering flags flown at half-staff. Flags are also flown at half-staff to mark a national tragedy.

The only national tragedy I see here is that the per capita number of gun deaths in America is more than 10 TIMES that of comparable high-income countries. And that number is primarily driven by a gun homicide rate that is 25 TIMES that of comparable high-income countries.

THAT is the national tragedy.

Perhaps every governor who gives a shit about the intolerable number of PREVENTABLE gun deaths in America should order flags to be flown at half-staff until this nation passes meaningful gun control and puts big money into interventions and community-based programs that are PROVEN to reduce gun violence.

The gun death of a man who has dedicated himself to ensuring we DO NOTHING to reduce the number of gun deaths in this nation is absolutely NOT a national tragedy.

I am appalled that any governor who claims to stand strong for REAL American values -- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, and self-governance, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry -- would compromise our collective values to honor this man who was hellbent on destroying anything that was halfway decent about this country.

Sure, if you've ordered flags to be flown at half-staff every year on Sept 11 as remembrance, then certainly, do it again. But make the reason CRYSTAL CLEAR. For goodness sake, don't elevate this horrible man with ANY honors.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/gov-whitmer-orders-michigan-flags-lowered-after-charlie-kirk-shot-killed/

[wiggs]

15. Yes this is a real concern. There are RWrs who have been itching to use their weapons cache. nt

[BidenRocks]

20. They may have a cache,

but they can only fire one at a time.

While we are shooting back.

Meal Team Six.

Muster at Dunkin

[Bengus81]

29. They think that no Dems own guns? They'll get a rude awakening.

[Jim__]

5. Was that question a coincidence? Or part of a conspiracy? I can't help but connect the question with the shot.

[AZJonnie]

8. And perhaps that's what the cabal who conducted the execution wants you to do!

If we're going to go down the CT rabbit-hole, might as well go all the way, right?

[strongermessage]

31. Malcolm Nance always says that coincidences take a lot of planning.

[Norrrm]

7. I disapprove of his killing. Charlie understood his own need for accepting it.

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we

All those dead school children were 'worth' it to Charlie.

[Bengus81]

32. I disapprove of the last school MURDER spree and the one before that and the other one

etc,etc,etc. Does anyone see Republicans give a rats ass?

[Crunchy Frog]

39. Very gracious of him to become one of the worthy sacrifices to the 2nd Ammendment.

[marble falls]

9. He seems to have reaped the whirlwinds he sowed.

[orangecrush]

11. To listen to CNN

He's being nominated for sainthood.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

12. I had to shut it off

TPTB and the MSM are really fucking warped

[Cirsium]

27. So strange

Yes, he is practically being nominated for sainthood by much of the "liberal" media. Yet, the right wing media is accusing them of the doing exact opposite.

[ancianita]

13. When 1% of all mass shooters are "too many" transgender, and when

98-99% of mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men, mr. prove me wrong was trying to blow the trans population up as somehow more prone to violence.

Now we'll have to put up with MSM making him out to be a martyr. A saint he was not.

Lord have mercy and God rest his soul.

[erronis]

17. Satan already had his soul (if he had such a thing.)

Just like the other well-known psychopaths ruining the world.

[wiggs]

16. On Fox...Kirk is described as an American Martyr, touching on religious or tribal notes. nt

[ancianita]

19. If Fox says that about Kirk, they'll canonize trump as a saint when he kicks.

People need God, but these men and the Fox media that promote them, are not the path to God.

[calimary]

21. Sickening thought!

[Norrrm]

34. Old/new Messiah

[ancianita]

35. Good one.

[Cirsium]

30. But...

Kirk doesn't rhyme with Wessel...

[UTUSN]

18. K&R

[BannonsLiver]

22. That seems apropos.

Today I have wondered if someone could have shown Charlie Kirk what was going to happen to him someday in some kind of ghosts of Christmas future scenario if he would have chosen to be an accountant living comfortably and quietly in the Midwest, rather than the bombastic path that led to fame and wealth but also his eventual demise at 31.

[Figarosmom]

28. I hope he realized what had

Happened to him before he list consciousness.

[usonian]

36. Your prescription is ready,

[Crunchy Frog]

38. Oh wow. I haven't looked at the news today. Doing other stuff. This is the 1st I've seen about this.

Mind blown.

At least my whole family has now gotten the new Covid vaccine.