"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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." -- Charlie Kirk, April 5, 2023, on the campus of Awaken Church, Salt Lake City, UT.
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"In the end, of course, nothing is going to change. There are a couple of presidential assassinations that produced some meaningful response thereafter (e.g., James Garfield's assassination led to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act), but that's about it. Other assassinations, school shootings, mass shootings, etc. sometimes generated a strong emotional response in the immediate aftermath, but even if they did... the 'reform impulse' faded. There will be no new gun laws in response to Kirk's murder. Nobody will tamp down the rhetoric (in fact, there's every chance the rhetoric will get worse).
"The really scary thing, however, is this: Republicans are really, really, angry and really, really upset about Kirk's passing. And, as we wrote just yesterday, the Trump administration is actively searching for a predicate act to justify making war against Democratic-run cities and states. And please remember again, that term 'war' is not our term (we actually used 'invasion'). No, it is Trump himself who used that word, in the context of his future plans for Chicago. And on top of all of this, the White House would also love a distraction from Jeffrey Epstein. [snip]
"What it amounts to is this. If and when the assassin is found, let us hope that he is a straight, white, Christian man. It's odd, and somewhat perverse, that such a thing should matter so very much, but it does. If the assassin turns out to be gay, or trans, or Black, or a Democratic socialist, or just a Democrat, or an immigrant, or Mexican, then god help us all." -- Andrew Tanenbaum and Christopher Bates, Electoral-vote.com.
Really, nothing good will come out of this terrible act of violence.
BONUS: Charlie Kirk in his own words.
🤬🤬 "Lame Stream Media" is failing us again!! The lionizing of Charlie Kirk, just because he was shot dead, is sickening!! Yes I want political violence to stop!! [Keep in mind that no one knows if this is political violence. It probably is, but this assumption is not yet confirmed. Idiots like Kash Patel made his own FBI's job harder with irresponsible statements that a podcaster crank might toss on the fire!] Yes I want guns off the street! Yes I want the anger dialed down! But, Kirk danced with the devil of stoking more political violence, stoking more guns on the street, stoking the dialing up of anger! 💩
ReplyDeleteThe earliest reports (on MSNBC) of the shooting relied in part on a young female journalist who was right there. She told the country the question Kirk was "debating" [demanding]..."how many trans mass shooters have there been and how do we keep guns out of the hands of trans people?" HOLY CHRIST!! This young woman, traumatized by a public shooting, clearly believed that that was a perfectly legitimate question! BUT, even on MSNBC today, that debate has been sane-washed into "ironically, Kirk was discussing mass shootings." NO!! He was demonizing the trans community and was surrounded by young people indoctrinated into demonizing a community because one shooter had transitioning in his background!! 👋 Bye, Charlie!! 🤬