Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of his wife and 2 children apparently when he fell his daughter began running to him. I'm sure you've seen the videos of the assassination. The progressive empathetic left are so tolerant, honourable, and kind. He was killed because someone disagreed with many of the things he said - he deserved assassination in the eyes of many posters here for his opinions its karma, sorting him out or what he deserves.

So called progressives the people of tolerance and compassion. So much so that the progressive haven that is blue-sky has had to start issue warnings to people celebrating the death of Kirk on their platform.

Seems more a case of former right wing raised mormon nut goes to college and becomes left wing nut

Thanks for the respectful invitation to reply. There's a lot to unpack there and I'll be as respectful and as brief as I can in return.

I didn't see the video - I don't really need to.

He was killed, as we are learning now, by an even more radical extremist influence. Ostensibly and as I understand it, the main ideological difference is that Kirk and Turning Point were pro-Zionists and Robinson like others of his ilk are committed anti-Semites. There's a lot more on that sort of thing here:

764 - ISD

So the 'left' component in this narrative is redundant. There is no left to speak of in the US anyway, MAGA simply uses it as a broad brush smear to any agent or institution it feels threatened by. As for other posters on Bluesky, reddit or wherever 'celebrating' Kirk's death, that might well be mistaken for a giant two fingered reply to Trump sympathisers for the initial hysterical knee-jerk reaction to the shooting.

In all my posts above I never once stated that he got what he deserved. I only ever pointed out that the violence he wished on others was levied back on him. He knew what he was doing and was well paid for it, so my sympathies are just not there for him. For example, Kirk was pro-Genocide in Gaza and daily, those pictures of starving innocents breaks my heart. If you have room in your heart for sympathy for Kirk alongside the Palestinians and many, many others, then you are a bigger man than I am.

The last point I want to make is about 'Opinions'. We are being told he was murdered for having opinions that you might disagree with. Kirk's words had influence and power. He legitimised and sanitised all kinds of wrong which has been discussed elsewhere on the thread. He made it OK to hate others. And if he was faced with a Gazan child, or a woman who is refused a pregnancy termination, or a Mexican deportee he would likely say that he's just expressing his opinion and the fact of that person's suffering has nothing to do with him. That their suffering is abstract in some way. I hate that level of hypocrisy in anyone no matter what their politics, status or whatever because it's essentially psychopathic.

So you can grieve his death all you wish and I will certainly leave you to that, but please don't expect me to do likewise.

Peace.

Hey,

with all this virtue signaling why don't you take a couple of Palestinian refugee families into your house? or donate some of your salary to Mexican illegal immigrants to fund their legal defense from deportation.

Mod Edit: Warned for baiting

It's quite obvious from your posts on Ukraine that you lack any sense of irony whatsoever.

Kirk is using his democratic freedoms to close down the rights of his fellow citizens. He is no more a democrat than a Sunday morning fart. He has no more interest in promoting and maintaining democracy than you do.

Gun laws won't stop all assassination attempts, but gun rights do make assassination attempts significantly easier to execute. It also makes mass shootings significantly easier to execute.

I don't like Chay Bowes. The man is human excrement. Chay now lives in Russia working as a propagandist for the Kremlin, but sometimes, he comes home to Ireland. If I wanted to assassinate Chay, I would not know where to begin to acquire a bolt action rifle, or any kind of firearm, as I have no criminal connections.

In America, you can simply buy bolt action rifle from a shop. If guns were banned in America, the assassin would face the difficulties I would face trying to acquire a rifle.

I never mentioned anything about mental health.

Standard60,

Minutes before the shooting, Hunter Kozak, a mathematics student at Utah Valley University, approached the microphone to challenge Charlie Kirk on the trans shooter stats:

“As Kozak had explained in a recent video on his TikTok channel, his statistical analysis shows that the opposite is true, and he was in the middle of explaining to Kirk that just five of the 6,000 mass shootings in the past decade have been carried out by transgender people when the gunman opened fire.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/12/charlie-kirk-shooter-suspect-latest-news-updates-donald-trump-utah

He comes from Utah which went to Trump by ~22 points in 2024. More specifically Washington County which went to Trump by over 52 points in 2024.

So he comes from deeply red conservative state (anyone that's been to Utah will attest to this) and and even more deeply conservative area of Utah where 4 in every 5 people around him voted Trump.

The world is a better place without him. Doesn't mean he deserved to die, but live by gun die by the gun.

Mother scrubbed her Facebook posts, the family are gun nuts, he dressed one Halloween as a groyper meme.

But apparently college professors are the problem.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/office-depot-worker-fired-after-refusing-to-print-charlie-kirk-vigil-poster/news-story/55bd39fcc755264782afb4a5c13ab480

More left wing tolerance on display.

Rip Charlie Kirk, and if some posts on here are anything to go by, rip free speech and differing viewpoints.

I can't believe some of cold and horrible responses I've witnessed to a man's cold blooded death. We truly live in surreal times.