Charlie Kirk's last words

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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