The right is already up to their usual bullshit:

[demmiblue]

Fox News' Jason Chaffetz: "I don’t think it was a coincidence that the shot rang out when you have a question about transgender mass shootings. Hopefully I am wrong. I will probably get criticized for jumping to conclusions... I don’t think that is a coincidence but we will see."

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) 2025-09-10T19:26:51.318Z

[vapor2]

1. My thoughts :

Republicans currently wearing AR 15 or AR 47 pins in lieu of the flag and it is republicans who refuse to do shit about gun control . I do not condone any shooting but republicans don't help

[DBoon]

5. It's not just refusing to control firearm access

It's boldly advocating mass ownership of firearms, to prove you are a truly masculine alpha male and for defense in case [disgusting word for African-Americans] try to rape your wife.

Fascism worships dominance and violence. What better instrument for this than the most powerful firearm available?

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. That statement should cost him his job in a normal world.

[SoFlaBro]

3. MAGA motherfucker's a stupid motherfucker to the bone.All of them:cowardly lowlife shitbags. Piss on those fucking turds

[Moostache]

4. If anyone is waiting for my sympathy towards a douchebag like Kirk, have fun with that... hell will freeze over first.

He FAFO'd in the starkest terms possible I guess... that question about whether or not shootings are justification to avoid anything that even tangentially touches the 2nd amendment fetish turns out to look very prescient now. It is neither sad, nor tragic when a loud mouthed attention seeker like Kirk pays even a fraction of the cost that gun violence inflicts on the truly innocent bystanders and victims every day in this rapidly devolving shit hole country.

There is always a right to free speech in my mind. But that carries with it the unwritten part, the quiet part, the part that no one likes to hear about - EVERYONE is accountable for their words and deeds. Act like Kirk does (did? I dunno if he's dead yet or not, nor do I care one way or the other) - expect blowback and consequences. He had no problem with cashing the checks and luxuriating in the fame that came with being an obnoxious uber-right wing douchebag in public spaces.

Tots and pears are all I can even half-heartedly offer, and even that is half-assed and not sincere.

[Quakerfriend]

6. Chafettz emerges from under the rock to spew

his nonsense.

What’s interesting to me about Kirk getting shot is that he had in recent weeks been bashing Trump.

And, you know this administration wants to distract from the protesters yelling at Trump in DC restaurant & Epstein & Russia’s attack on Poland…

[ariadne0614]

7. We may be thinking along the same lines.

I would put nothing past the orange monster. Maybe he decided Kirk would be more useful to him as a martyr. Omg. I sound like a conspiracy nut.