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bitchy | Charlie Kirk, 31-year-old right-wing media figure, was shot & killed in Utah
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bitchy | Charlie Kirk, 31-year-old right-wing media figure, was shot & killed in Utah

by jummy84
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There’s a whole movement of Gen Z and Millennial hard-right conservative guys who all sort of blend together for me. Before this week, I would not have been able to pick Charlie Kirk out of a line-up. But now the image of Kirk getting shot in the neck at a Utah college campus is seared into my memory bank. Kirk, who was only 31 years old, was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was on some kind of platform or stage, doing a “Prove Me Wrong” Q&A session. The last question he was asked was “do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last ten years?” Kirk answered with a question, “counting or not counting gang violence?” Then he was shot in the neck.

Charlie Kirk has died at age 31 after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Sept. 10, according to President Donald Trump.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” the president shared on Truth Social on Wednesday afternoon. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us.”

Kirk, a right-wing media personality who founded conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA, was manning his signature “Prove Me Wrong” table on the first stop of his American Comeback Tour in Orem, Utah, when shots were fired. Video posted from the event appeared to show Kirk being struck in the side of the head or neck as he spoke to the crowd from under a white pop-up tent.

After the shot rang out, the crowd dispersed in a panic, with onlookers shouting, “Run, run, run!”

[From People]

There are multiple angles of the shooting from people in the crowd, and each angle is worse than the next. I don’t recommend watching any of the videos, but they’re all over social media. As many have pointed out, Kirk spent the past nine or ten years demonizing minorities, women and marginalized communities and he ended up getting killed by someone who I’m 99.999% sure is a white-male shooter. In the whitest state in America, on a campus which is overwhelmingly white.

In 2023, Kirk was asked about the second amendment, mass shootings and America’s gun problem. He said: “You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal.”

I’m including an assortment of reactions from Democratic leaders. Republican leaders did not bother to offer any kind of similar sentiments when Minnesota’s Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home alongside her husband and their dog. That happened less than three months ago.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.

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Charlie Kirk Shot At Utah Event; MAGA Activist Condition Unknown
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Charlie Kirk Shot At Utah Event; MAGA Activist Condition Unknown

by jummy84
written by jummy84

UPDATED: Charlie Kirk is in “critical condition” after being shot at an university in Utah.

With Kirk in a local hospital after apparently taking a bullet to his throat just over an hour ago, the Associated Press is citing a “law enforcement” source for the conservative advocate’s state of health.

PREVIOUSLY, 12:13 PM Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event at an Utah university.

Details are scant on what happened, but it seems only one shot was fired and an individual is in custody.

Video circulating online from the scene at the well-attended outdoor gathering at Utah Valley University appears to show Kirk being hit in the neck. His condition is unknown right now.

As more becomes known, already leading members of the Trump administration have expressed their concern over what occurred with the influential voice in the MAGA movement. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took to social media quickly as Kirk’s shooting became widely covered.

“Please pray for Charlie Kirk and his family,” said Trump of his MAGA ally on Truth Social

Donald Trump walks on stage after being introduced by Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point Action on July 15, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

VP Vance took a similar stance.

The 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder frequently tours college campus’ to debate with audience members across the political spectrum. Wednesday was the opening date of the American Comeback tour, with his “Prove Me Wrong” stance a center piece of the dozen or so stops of the Fall stint.

In fact, Kirk’s tours, debating style and strategic outreach to younger voters have become such a hallmark of the current culture wars that South Park mimicked the events in the opening episode of its current 27th Season. To that, earlier this year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched his recent podcast series with a sit-down with Kirk, where the two agreed on a number of issues in which was clearly an attempt by the ambitious Newsom to broadened his brand and reach with conservatives.

Newsom today called Kirk’s shooting is “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.”

On a busy news days of Russian drones over Poland and more Jeffrey Epstein cover-up coverage, the Kirk shooting took over CNN, MSNC, the BBC and MSNBC.

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz, a former congressman from Utah, told viewers on the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet of witnessing the event and shooting. 

Chaffetz said: “First question was about religion. He went on for about 15, 20, minutes. Second question, interestingly, was about transgender shooters, mass shooters, and in the midst of that, the shot rang out. Now I happened to be watching Charlie. I can’t say I saw blood. I can’t say I saw him get shot, but as soon as that shot went out, he fell back … and everybody hit the deck, everybody’s a lot of people started screaming, and then everybody started running. As you might expect. There was some police presence, but there was no security check going in. Charlie has some security in front of him, but you got the sense that the shot came kind of straight at him. And I don’t think there would be many vantage points too far away, because he was under an awning. It’s a bright, sunny, beautiful end-of-summer summer day in Utah. And I just hope and pray that somehow, someway, he survives this.”

The home invasion and brutality against former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2022 aside, the past year alone has seen an apparent increase in open violence in the political arena in America. Trump was the subject of one assassination attempt on the campaign trail last year in Pennsylvania, as well as a potential attack on the golf course in Florida. Keystone State Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were attacked with a break-in and arson at official residence in April. More recently and tragically, there was the fatal June shooting of top Minnesota Democrat  Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark by the conservative leaning Vance Boelter. That shooting also left state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette injured. In August, reportedly angry over vaccine mandates, Patrick Joseph White fired almost 200 shots upon the Atlanta HQ of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and killed police officer David Rose.

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