Is the name of the ‘alleged’ shooter/killer of Charlie Kirk. ‘Allegedly’ a 22-year-old, white, heterosexual male. ‘Allegedly’ no political affiliation. But his parents are republican. Breaking news across wherever you get your media.
Maybe we should just leave this subject alone for a bit. Let it pan out or not. The guy who allegedly tried to assassinate Trump on the Golf course is on trial this week and aside from him clearly being out of his mind, we are no closer to his motivations.
The global reaction has been quite something. Off the bat, I condemn the assassination in the strongest possible terms. It's a tragic loss of life, and hopefully the killer is brought to justice. However, I'm struggling to square off how he's now being held up as some kind of martyr. Donald Trump referred to him as "a legendary figure", while Netanyahu called him a "lion-hearted friend of Israel...dedicated to speaking truth and defending freedom". Other Global Leaders have joined the outpouring of grief. This assassination should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It was a cowardly act. However, Charlie Kirk was not a man on the right side of history. Many of his beliefs were appalling and he had absolutely zero empathy or sympathy, for anyone on the receiving end of his arguments. This included victims of gun crime, among many others. I worry that people seem to be forgetting all this, as he's cast as some kind of revolutionary freedom fighter. Thousands of people are being bombed, persecuted and starved on a daily basis. Without condemnation. While one man will be rightly caught and tried for a single act, others are being actively supported and funded to commit war crimes and genocide in the 100s of thousands.
Absolutely correct. As you say this should be widely condemmed, but he was a nasty piece of **** with truly abhorrent views on many, many subjects. To pretend he's some hero because he was shot is crazy. Just some of the things he's said over the years and defended literally until his last breath. He said deaths as a result of guns were an acceptable price to pay to preserve the second amendment. He said gay people should be stoned to death. He regularly mocked the deaths of children. He stated that black people were better off under slavery because "they commited less crimes" He said that 10 year olds who are raped should be forced to carry the child to term, including if it happened to his own daughter. There are many more. A truly nasty human.
Send me an actual video of him saying this not from a stupid article someone on bbs can actually write because if he said those such things, his fanbase would be next to nothing.
I think the key word in your post is allegedly. I didn't know charlie Kirk ive watched his videos and things since though don't agree with everything he says, but he knew how to debate and put his point across well. Not like clowns we have over here like james o brien who often cuts off or just talks over anyone who he doesn't agree with.
He was a professional debater who spent his life specifically debating inexperienced students and hitting them with gotchas that will make good clips against people under equipped to retort.
The vilest of creatures, what he advocated killed him. He showed no empathy for others, he shouldn't receive any, not one drop.
Hang on, weren't you happy to throw out the (wrong) name of a suspect for the Southport killings? I wonder what the difference is here... Hmm.....
Here he is talking about how the bible says gay people should be stoned to death. He's also spoken about how he believes the bible should be the law so don't try the "oh he's only saying what it says in there" He's regularly tweeted mocking the deaths of palestinian children, blaming it on themselves. He's also regularly said that school shootings were an acceptable price to pay to preserve the lack of gun laws.
I'm still gob smacked that Utah uni allowed guns to openly be on campus. I can't get my head around that at all.
I hope no one on this thread is inferring that Charlie Kirk 'deserved' to be killed. A young man has died - a young woman widowed and two children now fatherless
The laws were changed 2 days prior to the shooting to allow open carry on college campuses. A law change that republicans fought for.
Think I got banned for that tbh. Lesson learned reformed poster here now. Although I'm surprised no one has been banned over the last few days on here.