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Those were the words of the late white nationalist Charlie Kirk. He said that it's God's plan to see people killed by gun violence. An event totally created by a white man law.
Firearms were a privilege of white men. They used them in their colonialist expansion of the country now known as the United States.
Guns were apparently made by the Chinese centuries ago, colonialized by the English and pushed into the mainstream by Europeans. Europeans used them in world conflicts, invasions and violent occupation of lands.
Before his untimely passing, Kirk had declared it was "worth it" to see people killed by gun violence. He said it's God's given to have the right to own firearms.
The United States has 460 mass shootings this year. The junk food media says it is a low year but you can't tell me that.
Kirk was killed apparently by a white man but the far right targeted immigrants, transgender Americans, Black men, Latino men, Muslims and Democratic politicians as the responsible parties for Kirk's death. He was killed in Republican controlled Utah where a white governor, a white majority of legislators and a bunch of tone deaf religious zealots allowed firearms on college campuses. A state where carrying firearms are allowed in most establishments including public schools, bars and canibus facilities.
His death should have moved Republicans to do something.
Nope.
Business as usual.
The number one threat in the United States is gun violence.
Erika Kirk is still trying to milk his wretched legacy.
She rejected the argument that gun violence was the root problem that led to her husband's assassination. The fact that he took a shot to the neck doesn't seem to bother her. I mean the shooter was a white guy. She forgave him.
Had it been a comedian, a person of color or even a transgender person, Kirk would never forgive. She will be on the frontlines guns ablazing.
Yeah, I said it, she is a racist.
She is entitled to be a racist. Her husband was one. Their free speech is not affect my paychecks. The lawmakers who are pushing to make this extremist a saint is concerning.
The big government nannies in the Republican Party want to push for bans, getting people fired and jailing dissent. Well, Israel also wants to have a role in it too.
We are seeing more surveillance cameras, more policing and more incompetent leadership from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
On Wednesday, Kirk sat down with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin to close out The New York Times DealBook Summit, a coveted spot that has previously featured luminaries such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sorkin noted that her husband was slated to appear at the DealBook Summit before his assassination.
Sorkin said that the subject of gun violence was something he and Charlie Kirk had often debated in the wake of mass shootings in America.
"He was a real believer, as you know, in the Second Amendment, and I'm curious how you think today about gun violence in America, given what happened to him," Sorkin said.
"It's a thoughtful question," Kirk responded. "And I wouldn't wish upon anyone what I have been through. And I support the Second Amendment as well. I do. But there's a bigger and much deeper conversation to all of that."
Kirk said when visiting college campuses, the counselors always say that the top issues students are facing are "mental health, anxiety [and] depression."
"And what Charlie knew, and he was trying to explain to students on campus, was that you have to understand that brain health is so important — how you eat, how you take care of yourself, how you nourish yourself, how you rest. And to him, it was much more deeper and intricate," Kirk told Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.
"And what I've realized through all of this is that you can have — you can have individuals that will always resort to violence. And what I'm afraid of is that we are living in a day and age where they think violence is the solution to them not wanting to hear a different point of view. That's not a gun problem. That's a human, deeply human problem. That is a soul problem. That is a mental — that is a very deeper issue," she continued.
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| Charlie and Erika Kirk at the Trump-Vance inauguration in 2025. |
Kirk also revealed that she had removed all social media from her phone following her husband's murder.
"Social media, like many things, it can be used for such good. And it can be used for such evil," Kirk said. "And Charlie and I both intentionally, especially after he was murdered, I took it all off my phone. I don't even have news apps on my phone. I have nothing on my phone. I let other people post for me and siphon through those comments. That is not — I do not have the brain space for that, and it would not be healthy for me either. I get called so many names, I genuinely don't care. I really don't. I told you this before — when you cast the bloody dead body of the person that you love, it pales in comparison to being called x, y, z."
She went on to say that while Charlie "understood the importance of social media," he would also "honor the Sabbath" and have them turn off their phones each week.
"It did not happen overnight. This is something that he leaned into. And on Friday night, when he would get home from work, he would turn off his phone and he would shove it in the junk drawer, and he would say, ‘Shabbat Shalom,’ shove it in the drawer, and he was full Dad mode, fooling with the kids, sports mode on Saturdays for college football, and he could breathe," Kirk said. "He had this sacred moment to just breathe and to rest and get away from the chatter, get away from the world and just have a moment to understand that life is so much bigger than the To-Do list, than the small problem that you're facing that you'll laugh at five years or five months, or five minutes from now. And he was really good about that."
I see they are planning on a film about his life. Trust me, the very folks who are trying to sanitize his most vile remarks about people are going to make him like some hero to free speech.
Kirk was a privileged white man who all the security around him and yet they couldn't protect him from a bullet to the damn neck. A man who wanted to claim that "gang violence" and "trans shooters" were factors to gun violence, bucked by his own kind. The same folks who he firmly believed were saviors to the country.
The year 2026, we're going to hopefully survive.
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