Right wing activist Charlie Kirk is dead from a single gunshot apparently fired from a Utah State University building about 200 yards away from where he was sitting in a tent conducting an event with students. No suspect is in custody, no matter what the right wing media and social media influencers are saying. This is why BYU is on lockdown and there’s likely a manhunt underway.
Donald Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social: “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
This is where I condemn all violence by gun. There are a lot of people out there — all of Congress and every Democrat on social media — condemning political violence. But gun violence is at the heart of the political violence. Just ask the families of the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota in June. The gun killed them. The gun killed Charlie Kirk.
Political violence is bad, but if we had a decent well-regulated militia the gun wouldn’t have been carried as easily onto that open carry campus. So I am saying that I condemn gun violence, and that condemnation extends to the killing of Charlie Kirk with one sniper’s bullet aimed at his carotid artery.
