Charlie Kirk's Legacy

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• Mark

  9:21AM

  "A life cut down by an assassin. A very sad day for freedom of speech."
  
  "In 2023, Kirk said that gun deaths are unfortunately “worth it” for the preservation of Second Amendment rights in the United States of America. He was speaking after a mass shooting killed six people, including children, at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee."
  
  Indeed. I don't believe that we should go around killing each other over our beliefs.
  
  Did you have similar feelings the day a MN lawmaker, her husband and the family dog were gunned down by an assassin?
  
  
• a2z

  9:54AM

  
  doesn't really help things when ~40% of the nation simply follows potus\rightwing media on which innocent deaths deserve empathy.
  maybe alex jones can chime in.
• bee

  10:21AM edited 11:22AM

  Mark said:

  
  Did you have similar feelings the day a MN lawmaker, her husband and the family dog were gunned down by an assassin?
  

  Both of these incidences you referenced are unacceptable. Personally, I don't agree with Charlie's point. No death by violence is ever acceptable.
  
  Sobering stat:

  The U.S. has averaged more than one mass shooting per day since the start of 2023, per the archive, which puts the nation on track to exceed the 647 recorded mass shootings of 2022.

  The second amendment provides citizens the right to bare arms to defend themselves against violence, not perpetrate violence.
  
  Murder by a mass shooter or an assassin is against the law. Defending oneself it not.
  
  I queried your quote and found the following quotes from a Newsweek article I will link.:

  "You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death," Kirk said at a Turning Point USA Faith event on Wednesday, as reported by Media Matters for America. "That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am—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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

  https://newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113
  
  Charlie paid the ultimate price for thinking gun violence deaths "are worth it".
• gman57

  12:10PM

  I lost my faith after Newtown, if a massacre of TWENTY 6-7 year old's and 6 adults did NOTHING to change our outlook on sensible gun safety I'm afraid nothing will.
• hank

  1:15PM edited 1:16PM

  Thank you @bee for posting this. I didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was. But from the clips I watched for an hour or so last evening he appears to have been an extraordinarily gifted communicator. I might have enjoyed hearing him speak even though I probably disagreed with 90% of his views. One more senseless tragedy in an unending string of tragedies - from school kids to political leaders.