"It’s a tragic irony that Kirk, who has long defended the 2nd Amendment and criticized gun control as a means of curbing mass shootings, was killed in such a manner. There was another shooting today nearby in a Denver, Colorado, high school, which left three people injured.

This is America, where there are more guns than people."

~ Wajahat Ali

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/23

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/conservative-activist-and-gun-rights-c91

"In the wake of a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023, Kirk said the cost of 'some gun deaths' is 'unfortunately' worth it in order to preserve Second Amendment rights, calling it a 'prudent deal.'”

~ Team Zeteo

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/24

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-charlie-kirk-shot-dead-at

"I think it's worth [it] 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

~ Charlie Kirk per Walter Einenkel

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/25

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/10/2342819/-Trump-ally-Charlie-Kirk-s-shooting-death-prompts-all-kinds-of-reactions

“The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.”

~ Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/26

https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlie-kirk

"The FBI has mismanaged and botched this whole thing from the start. FBI Director Kash Patel posted that the suspect was in custody. It turns out, they racially profiled an Arab Charlie Kirk supporter who had nothing to do with the shooting.

Earlier, the FBI claimed they found another suspect who happened to be a mentally ill man known for disrupting political events and gatherings in Utah."

~ Ben Meiselas

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #FBI
/27

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thoughts-on-assassination

"The FBI was then forced to issue a retraction, admitting it doesn’t have the suspect in custody as of this writing. ...

The head of the Utah FBI Field Office was a well-respected career agent named Mehtab Sayed, a Pakistani woman. She was fired a few weeks ago because she was Pakistani and a woman. This is in addition to all the firings of most senior FBI officials as Trump exacts revenge and retribution on the FBI."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #FBI
/28

"Also, Trump has placed a 22-year-old intern with zero experience, named Thomas Fugate III, to lead the domestic threat assessment division within the FBI. He’s not the person you want in that position."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #FBI
/29

"The vvil that men do lives after them."

~ Doktor Zoom

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/30

https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after

I wrote a few thoughts on #NineEleven, #CharlieKirk, #IrynaZarutska and today's #PrayerWalk all wrapped together... because, in a way, they are. https://ofb.biz/sa1351

Mathew Dowd fired by MSNBC for what seems to me a thoughtful answer to the sort of questions MSNBC hired him for.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/matthew-dowd-fired-msnbc-charlie-020835082.html
#MSNBC #FreeSpeech #CharlieKirk #Fascism

Whatever you might say about #CharlieKirk there’s no denying that he died as he lived: engaged in a performative, bad-faith argument about trans people and gun violence.

#charliekirk #kirk #wife #wifeandkids #thoughtsandprayers #christian #catholic #leadership #values #christianvalues #liberty #libertyuniversity #guns #guncontrol #rhetoric #agenda #conversation #boost #blog #writer #political #sociology #anthropology #psychology #news

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/09/11/the-wife-and-kids/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Quite amazing all these far-right people always claiming that black people kill much more than white people, but they never see or say that men kill overwhelmingly more than women !

#CharlieKirk

#OMG

This is the #Republicans promised #Bloodbath remember?

#RonDesantis "cutting throats" ring a bell?

Don't let #Republicans try to pull your heart strings as they stab you in the back and send the military to your community.

#KevinMcCarthy on CNBC this morning trying to make #CharlieKirk an angel for #Republicans hate that brought consequences.

They still won't ban guns and rather, do nothing but blame everyone else.
#CNBC
#Squawkbox
#fail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533pBCqgE-k

"Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot."

Violent political rhetoric begets violence. It is evil and unjust. With it we saw the future president nearly assassinated last year and see a man, #CharlieKirk, dead whose rise to fame was from doing peaceful debates on college campuses. I agreed with him on some things and not on others. But, our problem is forgetting to see the Image of God even in those whom we disagree with. This is the fruit of constantly vilifying our neighbors and believing the worst on their views. Christians must flee this vicious cycle, it is abhorrent. #violence #politics #uspolitics

Alt...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 03: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Charlie Kirk visits SiriusXM Studios on March 03, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Some people create great changes after they die and I can only hope that the assassination of #CharlieKirk is used as an example of what happens in the context of the current political climate he helped create.
#coup
You can incite people for a living, but that living brings great risk.

I will say this.

I believe this is a watershed moment.

There have been recent class-based assassinations with the CEO of a health insurance company and others.

And, there have been recent political assassinations of state representatives and attempts on the current US president during the election.

But this is the first "big name" political assassination.

I fully expect tit-for-tat responses. I'm worried about a couple that I won't name out loud. There has been a LOT of stochastic terrorism. Fricken powder keg.

Some have called our current situation (prior to this) a "cold civil war" what with the US President deploying armed military to various cities and giving shows of force. Whether that term fits or not, I do believe we're in the midst of a civil war.

This is an escalation.

I expect it will continue.

Join community. Build up mutual-aid. Find folks to protect and those who can protect you.

Modern civil war is distinctly different from the 1800s and we're really not sure how it'll play out. But institutions are and already have crumbled - not everywhere and not uniformly.

But here we are.

#CharlieKirk #Charlie #Kirk

I expect the U.S. fascists to use #CharlieKirk as an excuse to go full 2nd Civil War any moment now.

Well, fuck that douchebag.

Hope he dies. In pain. Lots of it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt

#TurdReich #MAGAt #douchebag #CharlieKirk

#TurdReich #CharlieKirk

The shooting of #CharlieKirk is awful -- especially as he engaged in his signature effort to actually debate people of opposing opinions. That's what we need: peaceful debate. Praying he can recover and recover fully.

Charlie Kirk shot at an event in Utah.

#CharlieKirk #uspol

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437