Prayers for Charlie Kirk

[mr715]

Thoughts too.

I shall for the sake of decency not disclose what I am praying and thinking happens.

[Aristus]

1. Someone chose a Second Amendment solution.

It's what Charlie Kirk would have wanted.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Better still, it's what he actually said he wanted. Some folks would

have to die, you know, for the “greater good” of the second amendment. He’s got his wish, I’m about 90% sure of it. The video shows decorticate posturing.

[Iris]

2. Praying for an outcome that doesn't make him some sort of warped JFK for his generation

[Hellbound Hellhound]

5. He already is. The Youtube sphere's already flooding it.

"Leftists start civil war" "Dems kill political activist".

Say what you will about the man, he had millions of followers, and someone just (probably) whacked him in broad daylight. Now his viewership will multiply to tens or hundreds of millions, and guess who's seen to blame?

Democrats.

It may not be right, and I think that the shooter's a rightie personally, but the swing is already in motion.

[mr715]

13. Remember Gabby Giffords nt

Remember Sandy Hook.

etc. ad nauseum.

Democratic vision and policy would have protected that piece of shit from getting shot. All while he sat that on a university campus using the liberal values of free speech to spew his poison.

I think it is ironic that a bullet hit him in right in the voice.

[Hellbound Hellhound]

19. Aye, but the liberal values of free speech allow him to do so.

By shooting him dead, someone just gave the right EVERY excuse to start shooting; a right winger was executed publically, broadcasted live, while speaking freely and giving others the opportunity to do the same. No matter how WRONG his views are, we've lost any and all moral high ground. He's already a martyr.

[mr715]

20. It is always dangerous to raise martyrs

But to be fair, the right has had a monopoly on firing the proverbial 1st shot. Pun sincerely and insensitively intended. I feel a little dirty about it, but I have trouble feeling bad.

[Hellbound Hellhound]

21. I don't know about that...

Even when Trumps "Assassination attempt" was a thing, there wasn't this level of mobilization on the right's social media... I don't know, man. Someone just legitimized trying to or actively killing someone because you disagree with their ideas. That's NOT a good thing, no matter who's doing it.

I haven't felt a chill like this since 9/11... I really hope my gut feeling is wrong but I DO NOT like this at all.

[AZJonnie]

22. Yeah, well I think THEY started it

"The suspect in the shootings involving the families of Minnesota congresspeople is Vance Boelter, age 57. He is accused of killing Democratic Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and of shooting and wounding Democratic state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their homes in June 2025. Boelter was captured after a two-day manhunt and faces federal and state charges, including murder and attempted murder. Authorities discovered a list of additional political targets, mostly Democrats, in his possession."

Also, I don't think Kirk's viewership will be going up.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. When you spew that level of hate one cannot think some isn't coming back at you.

[ZDU]

4. Tots and pears

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

[Irish_Dem]

6. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[ImNotGod]

7. Thy reaps what thy sows. nt

[Traildogbob]

8. I remember

Him at a college ranting and a supporter and MAGA student shouted to him mid speech, When does the shooting start”, referencing their dream of civil war.
Well……..guess it started. FAFO.
Thoughts and prayers. The cost of freedom hits us all.

[QueerDuck]

9. Pass the biscuits please.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. Hey! I just remembered.

I actually HAVE popcorn.

[James48]

10. I saw the video.

It was a clean neck shot from about 200 yards. Right in and through the artery. There is no way he is surviving that shot.

[QueerDuck]

11. Thanks for the update.

[Renew Deal]

23. 200 yards?

I haven't watched the video. It was a sniper?

[Stuckinthebush]

24. Highly trained marksman

200 yards is sniper level I'd imagine.

[LonePirate]

12. I wish his innocent children well in this difficult time. I don't care one iota about their father.

[RockRaven]

14. No need for either. It is an event/outcome he chose/desired.

"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."

[mr715]

18. Oh my.

Oh dear. Oh heavens above.

Gosh golly gee.

Finally, a school shooting right wingers will howl about.

[Keepthesoulalive]

16. Oh well