Charlie Kirk shot at UVU in Orem

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I am very sad for Charlie’s family. This is a horrific thing, and I worry deeply about its impact on our politics.
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Thoroughly disgusted by this act of violence and destruction. What is the point of this crap? Someone kills him likely because they object to his politics? Like he doesn't have an entire organization behind him that will continue their mission?

WTAF is wrong with people? Mentally ill? Isolation? Reliance on social media as if it were real? All of the above?

It's simply horrifying how easily people in this society will take a human life. I'm so SICK of this devaluation of life!
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Here's my take on his senseless murder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEQh2-obBQ

I share my thoughts on why this simply cannot and should not be the way of America. We HAVE to do better.
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Vēritās wrote:
Wed Sep 10, 2025 11:16 pm
Jesse Waters just used this incident to openly declare war on the Left.
Inciting violence in a gun-toting country is foolish. Might end up with a huge lawsuit for stirring up right-wing mass insanity.
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Vēritās wrote:
Wed Sep 10, 2025 11:16 pm
Jesse Waters just used this incident to openly declare war on the Left. Using various examples of incidents many of which had nothing to do with Leftists. He even brought up the attempted assassination of Trump by a Republican kid as proof that the Left is at literal war with them. No mention of the far more numerous examples of Right Wingers trying to kill Democrats. Or the fact that the RNC mocked Pelosi's husband after surviving an attempted murder.

Why is this clown allowed to be on TV still? All he's going to do is get more people killed. Hell, we don't even know who fired the gun. For all we know it could be some grieving parent who lost a child is upset with Kirk's past statements regarding more guns = less death. So why is he still on TV?

Oh, right. Because FOX is and always will be pure political propaganda designed to drive a wedge through the middle of our country.
FOX is the only source I watched about the murder. I didn't hear that at all. In my defense I didn't listen for more than say an hour.

And I don't plan to either.

If what you say is true, he declared war on the Left. The other side of that coin is that the Left will use it to declare war on gun rights.

It's all too predictable and unseemly. Both "sides" are guilty of this. And the sides+ social media+"news" outlets for profit+greed are the problem. People seeking fame and fortune while marginalizing other humans. ALL of it is the problem.
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Overturning the 2nd amendment wouldn't have done much to help Irina Zaretska earlier this week. Watch DeCarlos Brown jr. randomly murder her on a public transit railcar in Charlotte, NC for no apparent reason. Then watch everyone in the railcar callously ignore it for a full minute and a half as blood pours from her jugular soaking up the floor of the railcar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LUx3Vepks

This is Satan taking hold of the hearts and minds of those who allow him to do so. Sadly there is nothing new about any of this. It is only a continuation of the war in Heaven.
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ajax18 wrote:
Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:44 am
Overturning the 2nd amendment wouldn't have done much to help Irina Zaretska earlier this week. Watch DeCarlos Brown jr. randomly murder her on a public transit railcar in Charlotte, NC for no apparent reason. Then watch everyone in the railcar callously ignore it for a full minute and a half as blood pours from her jugular soaking up the floor of the railcar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LUx3Vepks

This is Satan taking hold of the hearts and minds of those who allow him to do so. Sadly there is nothing new about any of this. It is only a continuation of the war in Heaven.
The reason that was in Right Wing media is because she was a gorgeous blonde haired white woman murdered by a black man. Period. Then it gets politicized by the Right as my social media feed is full of arguments like, "I thought the Left supported Ukraine, but not when a black Democrat kills one."

Maybe if we had enough funding for mental health, which Republicans keep shooting down, this black man who was said to be a schizophrenic, would be off the streets and getting the kind of mental healthcare that he needs.
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Some Schmo wrote:
Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:42 am
Gadianton wrote:
Thu Aug 14, 2025 2:56 pm
Or is it the truth that you never had any morals to begin with?
This is true of MAGA generally. You must be an unforgiving, hypocritical asshole to be a Republican. They're proud of that stuff, because they have the maturity of a damned baby (a.k.a. Trump).

Do everyone a favor: die in a fire, MAGA.

The best thing to happen to this country in a long time will be Trump dying a painful, bitter death. It deserves torture.

Now I can look forward to ceeboo passing out on his favorite chaise lounge he bought for that very purpose, because Trump voters are damned snowflakes in addition to their other countless faults. America is infested with damned MAGA morons. We need an exterminator.
I guess Schmo found that exterminator he was looking for.
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Philo Sofee wrote:
Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:41 am
Here's my take on his senseless murder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEQh2-obBQ

I share my thoughts on why this simply cannot and should not be the way of America. We HAVE to do better.
Ready to give this a listen. Thank you for offering it to us.
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I've heard that if you live by the sword, you die by it too.

Just saying.
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