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As I left work yesterday, a barrage of text messages came through from my husband. Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was shot. Then, came the following text message:
Charlie Kirk is dead.
It hit like a ton of bricks on a warm, September day. He was only 31. He left behind a wife and two small children. Then, I started to scroll. Matthew Dowd of MSNBC was one of the worst. Dowd called Kirk one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures, in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech.” He in turn, said, “hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions, and I think that’s the environment that we’re in.”
He failed to look at his own network or search deep internally before he uttered those words. What kind of “hate” and “division” did Charlie Kirk spread? Here we have the quotable Charlie Kirk:
How can it possibly be that so many Americans are rallying to support Ocasio-Cortez, when all they need to do is look at Venezuela to see where she is leading them?”-Charlie Kirk
So divisive. So hateful.
Yes, America is a nation of immigrants – but the immigrants have to enter legally.”-Charlie Kirk
Far-right bigotry!
I founded Turning Point U.S.A. to take the fight for ideological diversity directly to a progressive stronghold: the nation’s leading colleges and universities.”-Charlie Kirk
Kirk made a living by debating college students. In the quest for logic, he called out the illogical. See below for what I mean:
We will get back to the UC Riverside student in the above clip in just a minute. This is not about gun control as many a politician will spin this. This is also not the time to be ugly, but alas, people are.
You can and only say this behind the safety of your keyboard like the coward your parents know they raised. Pathetic.
— Design 2 Live (@design2live) September 10, 2025
24 years ago, innocent Americans who were just going about their day were targeted-their lives, hopes and dreams taken away from them in a senseless act of violence motivated by a group of terrorists who hated absolutely everything we stand for. Although we don’t know anything yet about Charlie Kirk’s shooter who is still at large, we can assume this attack came from within.
A wave of violence is building, from the assassination of Charlie Kirk to the attempted shooting of President Trump, from the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the slaying of two Israeli embassy staffers. All of these acts of extreme violence have found support in the dark precincts of political radicals.”-Ben Shapiro
This is a wave of individuals who will stop at nothing to silence opposing opinions. They can’t handle opposing opinions and do not have the skills to logically debate them without name-calling, throwing an f-bomb every other word, or, sadly, violence. Remember that UC Riverside student from above? This young person is one of many on a college campus. This young adult is a biology major, who basically argued for killing a person who is not deemed by the collective, “useful”. He could not put the pieces together that a person is knit by DNA (and God) at conception. There are many like this student who deny the simple truth placed in front of their eyes. They believe lives are dispensable and anyone who disagrees with them should be flat-out obliterated.
Kirk sought to provide a place on college campuses for spirited debate. Yesterday, someone silenced him for good.
I admit that I was torn between being sad and flat-out angry yesterday afternoon. Agree with Kirk or disagree with him, Kirk sought to bring spirited debate on college campuses alive once again to the point that it killed him. In a nation where “living your truth” is supposedly embraced, no matter how far-fetched and ridiculous it is, someone could not handle Kirk’s brand of truth and they took extreme measures to silence it. This goes beyond canceling or unfollowing or muting someone on social media. This goes beyond suggested “education camps” (yes, it was uttered). This is the culmination of a radical, faithless society that believes lives are expendable (they are not). A society that believes that God is not real and there is no heaven or hell (there most certainly is). A society that believes the family unit is something of oppression (it’s not). A society that believes burning cities to the ground in the name of injustice is somehow justice. A society that does not believe in thoughts and, especially prayers. A society that believes widowing a woman with two children is somehow “better for her” than having her husband by her side in this life because of his opinions which they categorized as “hate speech”.
Yesterday’s gunshots spoke louder than any “hate speech” Charlie Kirk supposedly pushed on the institutes of higher learning that he visited. Those terrifying sounds and the heartbreaking videos spoke loudly of the ailing human condition of the world we are living in today. 24 years ago, it was foreigners on our soil attacking us from within because they hated what we stood for. Today, it is our own. If that does not indicate how sick our society is, I don’t know what else to say.
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons/Cropped
CDC says: Charlie Kirk’s message was simple,we are not doomed to a life of meaningless pursuits.
Lmao says: – My favorite quotes are:
-“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.”-
– “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.”-
– “…including gang violence? *Bang* glurbglubfhbt”
Scott says: You’re a real special kind of shitbag aren’t you?
Pretty much proving the accuracy of this post.. thansk for that.
NTSOG says: The capacity to empathise means being able to read intuitively the emotional-based behaviour of others. In short ‘feel’ the feeling of others. Personally, being severely autistic I can’t do that. I can observe the behaviour of others and try to analyse it and make some sense of what their behaviour means to them in social-emotional terms. Mostly I miss the point and often upset people who then take offence though I meant no harm.
Being able to empathise does NOT mean an individual actually gives a damn about other people. I worked for 40 years in the disability field with many social workers who, as a group, are renowned for being highly empathetic and ‘wear their hearts on their sleaves’. However I found many of them to be amongst the most dishonest, intolerant and spiteful people I ever met. Having a well developed capacity to empathise did not make them better, kinder people. Many conspired to hurt fellow staff with whom they had disagreements, real or imaginary.
I agree with Kirk: “empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.”
The current usage by the caring-sharing Left is actually the pretence of caring for and about others then claiming the high moral ground. It is a dishonest manipulative strategy of people seeking personal advantage.
ronald kelly says: this article is one sided. You made no mention of the recent political Violence visited on the the left. The American majority on both sides are against violence. You must know most Americans are peace loving. .
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