The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Evel K

Wednesday was a sad day in the United States. Charlie Kirk was killed while doing what he loved. I'm not sure if anyone will ever bridge the gap of polarizing viewpoints in this country, but having been very successful at a very young age, he continued working on his mission. I saw a clip where someone asked him if he were to die today, what would he want to be remembered for. He was clearly taken aback by the question but answered that he would want to be remembered as a man of faith. Rest In Peace Charlie 

nicknyr15

This won’t end well. 

Tim Simmons

There’s been a discussion in the thread about guns. 

Tim Simmons

This is a layered discussion, but the bottom line is I’m certain everyone believes that murdering someone for their beliefs is wrong. 

gimmesometruth27

nicknyr15 said:

This won’t end well. 

lol

static111

A day we will hopefully forget about faster than we forgot about the last 100 school shootings that were far worse events for our country.

gimmesometruth27

i kinda thought he deserved a thread of his own, but then i thought why don't the kids that got shot in colorado at the same time have their own thread too?

this is too frequent, and the guns thread is probably the best place for all of this discussion.

Tim Simmons

Evel K said:

[insert day of the week here] was a sad day in the United States. 

Is a bit of an evergreen statement tho. 

Tim Simmons

But there’s a part of me that feels like this whole thread is bait. 

gimmesometruth27

Tim Simmons said:

But there’s a part of me that feels like this whole thread is bait. 

at least he did not come in here and threaten all the leftists and democrats. he waited for some information to come out, so i believe most likely coming from a good place.

Tim Simmons

That’s fair

MayDay10

Its an awful thing.  3rd world shit.  Horrible for this guy's family.  If he wanted to silence him, he only amplified his voice.

I'd like to have rules where a 22 year old cant get a gun that can virtually cut someone in half from 2 football fields away

Go Beavers

Speaking of faith, his misinterpretations of the Bible is another area where he perpetuated myths and division. 

afJohnny2013

static111 said:

A day we will hopefully forget about faster than we forgot about the last 100 school shootings that were far worse events for our country.

I don’t know you, but God does and I sincerely pray He intervenes in your life based on your posting. I will never forget Charlie Kirk’s murder just like I won’t forget MLK Jr’s murder. Your way of thinking is harmful to others.

cincybearcat

Hahaha god intervening on a PJ messageboard. That’s a new one,

id prefer he intervene at the catholic church when they were abusing kids…but god didn’t.

id prefer he intervene at all the schools and churches where kids and people have been killed in cold blood. No where to be seen. 

I pray god intervenes and stops the madness in the world instead if focusing on an accurate post on a bands messageboard. God bless 

afJohnny2013

Go Beavers said:

Speaking of faith, his misinterpretations of the Bible is another area where he perpetuated myths and division. 

The Bible is Theology not a bunch of myths.

afJohnny2013

Evel K said:

Wednesday was a sad day in the United States. Charlie Kirk was killed while doing what he loved. I'm not sure if anyone will ever bridge the gap of polarizing viewpoints in this country, but having been very successful at a very young age, he continued working on his mission. I saw a clip where someone asked him if he were to die today, what would he want to be remembered for. He was clearly taken aback by the question but answered that he would want to be remembered as a man of faith. Rest In Peace Charlie 

Well said. In all actuality, Charlie’s courage and integrity is what I believe Eddie V et al truly respects deep down but are just too cowardly to rally against when push comes to shove. For example, they make money off the song Jeremy and the themes around it, but what are they doing to stop it?

Halifax2TheMax

Only 1,226 days to go. Real Christian of him. Maybe he should spend just a little more time reading the bible rather than holding it upside down. But we know he doesn’t read. Thoughts and prayers.

Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move

President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward

Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem.

In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commentedthat there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.

Less than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight on the campus of Utah Valley University, Trump replied: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”

He went on: “The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.”

Trump’s refusal to seek a common bipartisan way forward at a time of profound national anger, fear and mourning was a stunning move for a sitting US president, even by his standards.

The US has a long history of presidents using their rhetorical powers to try to overcome political fissures. The pinnacle perhaps was Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address towards the end of the civil war, in which he sought to “bind up the nation’s wounds” and made a point of striving for unity “with malice toward none, with charity for all”.

In more recent times, Joe Biden used his inaugural address in 2021, just days after the insurrection by Trump supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, to call for unity, without which, he said, “there is no peace, only bitterness and fury”.

Trump’s appearance on Fox News made clear he has no intention of following that rhetorical tradition. Instead, the tenor of his response to the Kirk shooting has been hyper-partisan and grounded in retribution.

In Friday’s comments, he threatened the philanthropist George Soros with a Rico investigation of the sort normally reserved for organised crime. He accused Soros of funding “professional agitators” who were engaging in “more than protest, this is real agitation, this is riots on the streets”.

In an Oval Office address delivered hours after Kirk was pronounced dead, Trump made menacing remarks indicating he would seek revenge against “organizations that fund and support” political violence. He laid blame for the current plight entirely on what he called the “radical left”.

The president has already used his second term in the White House to turn the heat up on those he regards as his political enemies. He has authorised an investigation into the main fundraising channel for the Democratic party, ActBlue, and threatened to rescind the tax-exempt status of progressive groups such as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) and environmental groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/trump-fox-friends-charlie-kirk-shooting

Halifax2TheMax

afJohnny2013 said:

static111 said:

A day we will hopefully forget about faster than we forgot about the last 100 school shootings that were far worse events for our country.

I don’t know you, but God does and I sincerely pray He intervenes in your life based on your posting. I will never forget Charlie Kirk’s murder just like I won’t forget MLK Jr’s murder. Your way of thinking is harmful to others.

If static’s thinking is harmful to others, what was Charlie Kirk’s thinking?

Also, are you praying for CCOOTWH and his relationship with Jeffery Epstein? Messaging AG Bondi demanding they release the Epstein files? Charlie would want you to pray for their release.

static111

afJohnny2013 said:

static111 said:

A day we will hopefully forget about faster than we forgot about the last 100 school shootings that were far worse events for our country.

I don’t know you, but God does and I sincerely pray He intervenes in your life based on your posting. I will never forget Charlie Kirk’s murder just like I won’t forget MLK Jr’s murder. Your way of thinking is harmful to others.

My thinking that school shootings that are so easily forgotten in protection of the 2A are a much worse thing than one murder is harmful?  

Edited to add.  Kirk was on record saying Martin Luther King Jr was a bad person and the civil rights act was a mistake. And my thinking is hurtful. Lol

mickeyrat

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death, while others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence across the political spectrum, the President and his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, defined the crisis differently: it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it. “It is not a dialogue about the crisis of political violence in America that he wants right now but an aggressive new policy of political vengeance,” Susan B. Glasser writes, in this week’s column. Read it here: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JpiqyX