A GiveSendGo has been set up for the Latter-day Saint shooter’s family.
In addition to the death and destruction he caused,
He left behind a wife and several children, including one who requires expensive medical attention.
Pray for your enemies.
Bless those who curse you.
Link in the next post.
Realizing this was the last thing I said to Charlie. Not going to delete it. I believe he's with Jesus now and I'm ashamed, unable to apologize for calling him a phony.
He stuck his neck out all the time, engaging with opponents, while I scribbled and talked trash from the safety of my desk.
You're a real one. I'm the phony.
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Not too surprised by the response from some people to this, so I'm going to reiterate my position. Some of you see this as defending him? I'm not.
I have for the last 10+ years cultivated one of the biggest trans friendly spaces on the entire internet. I am someone who disagrees with the majority of his beliefs openly, (and that includes his trans identity beliefs) and have pridefully cultivated a safe space for all identities.
It's within this safe space that I have seen people celebrating an assassination and find it foul. It's because I lead such a diverse community that I'll open myself up to the obvious hatred that comes along with saying what I've said.
Violence begets violence. Rhetoric doesn't disappear when people die. A public assassination solves nothing and activates more violence.
And yeah I'm a YouTuber who barely comments on this stuff and should probably stay in my lane but I'm a student during the rest of my life. I'm just a YouTuber to you guys. This happened at a college campus and my campus hosts him like yearly. This shit scares me. But don't get it twisted, I am a frequent defender of free speech and this shouldn't really surprise you at this point.
Stay safe.
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
I’ve been searching Bluesky to find people celebrating the assassination. The biggest account I found has 16K followers. There are probably others.
But it seems like 100% of Democrats who matter in any way unequivocally condemn the killing. Maybe we should appreciate that?
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The very essence of faith disowns the need for logic. TBF, logic isn’t useless nor is it necessary to disown to be faithful.
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