'Drastic and negative': Psychologist explains mental health impacts of graphic Charlie Kirk video - CNN Newsroom

[Rhiannon12866]

Platforms are restricting graphic content after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but the violent footage had already reached millions within hours. - Aired on 09/13/2025.

[msongs]

1. JFK getting blown away is widely available on youtube why is the recently gone to white heaven guy special?

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I've certainly seen the Zapruder fim, but that was from quite a distance

I haven't seen the one of Charlie Kirk getting shot, and I obviously don't want to, but I'm guessing that it was filmed closer up.

[pat_k]

2. I have no objection to restricting this graphic video.

It would never have been shown on broadcast TV.

I'll probably be pilloried, but I don't think anyone needs these images burned into their head.

Years from now? IDK. But now, when passions are high, I do not seen any legitimate public purpose served by ensuring free availability.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. The video might be as available as the gun who killed him.

And yet the gun is considered wholesome in American culture.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I certainly don't want to see it, but I'm guessing that a great many college kids have

And it was explained how this would affect them more than older adults. When I was in elementary school, I saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot live on TV and that's something I will never forget.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Americans need to see the results of their hatred, anger, violent rhetoric.

Like Eisenhower made the German people walk through the concentration camps right after WWII.

If we keep protecting Americas from their own polices and hatred they can remain in total denial.

Time for a reality sandwich big time.

[BigMin28]

7. I watched it

Horror films are more graphic than what I witnessed. We as a society try to sanitize things. Violence is ugly, no matter where it comes from. Gun violence is even worse. Until people really see what it does, we have no hope of stopping it..