Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.
Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. Ironically, he was engaged at the time of his death with a student who was questioning him about mass shootings in America. His murder is one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to last summer’s shooting of Trump, that have roiled the nation. (Politico)
Trump succeeded largely through the efforts of Charlie Kirk, whose charismatic appeal to the young turned people out in 2024. A staunch believer in Conservative principles, Charlie will be be remembered by what will doubtless be the words he said, believed… and died by:
“It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
Let’s see what a hero Charlie was. When Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked by a man with a hammer, Kirk said “some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail [the attacker] out.”
And as far as empathy goes, Kirk said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."
Just another right wing hero.
Patriotism is a quality that belongs exclusively to Republicans, oh yes, and gun lovers.