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How long before we're told the shooter was a disgruntled transgender individual....?
First it was reported by Deseret News it was a young black man but they deleted that from their website.
Now it appears it was an old white guy.
July 2023 Twitter post
A widely circulated post from July 2023 on Twitter (now X) quotes Kirk as saying: "It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment". The post quotes Kirk, but he did not make the statement verbatim.
February and May 2024 YouTube shorts
On YouTube, Turning Point USA and other accounts posted a "shorts" video of Kirk debating a college student on gun control in February and May 2024. In the video, Kirk says that there is a "cost to liberty" and that gun ownership will result in gun deaths. He compares this to driving, which he considers a moral good despite resulting in auto fatalities. Kirk states that the "positives far outweigh the negatives". He explicitly defends the Second Amendment as a protection against a tyrannical government.
Seeing him get shot wasn't on my approved list of things I wanted to see today.
As much as the man is a disgusting pig and should be mocked until the cows come home, this isn't good for anything.
First it was reported by Deseret News it was a young black man but they deleted that from their website.
Now it appears it was an old white guy.
There are two extremely sad things i'm seeing from this event.
#1 - dude is a father. If he doesn't make it his child has one less parent in the world.
#2 - these people are already blaming the left and calling them disgusting before any details about the perpetrator comes out.
Any sane reasonable person waits to review the facts before going into full blown rage.
The political sphere, regardless if you’re left or right, is constant gas lighting.
It’s a powder keg.
I've never understand why people jump to conclusions about shit like this. They're almost never correct in their assumptions, and it only makes things worse.
The shooter might be a Democrat/liberal/progressive or he might be a Republican/conservative/maga, it doesn't fucking matter.
This should never have happened, and nor the rhetoric that he espoused should never have been allowed to go mainstream.
While I agree, he also deserved it. Both can be true.
There should be no room for political violence one way or the other.