Yeah. Charlie Kirk did say, "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."
Here's the full quote:
“Yeah, it's a great question. Thank you. So, I'm a big Second Amendment fan but I think most politicians are cowards when it comes to defending why we have a Second Amendment. This is why I would not be a good politician, or maybe I would, I don't know, because I actually speak my mind.
The Second Amendment is not about hunting. I love hunting. The Second Amendment is not even about personal defense. That is important. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government. And if that talk scares you — "wow, that's radical, Charlie, I don't know about that" — well then, you have not really read any of the literature of our Founding Fathers. Number two, you've not read any 20th-century history. You're just living in Narnia. By the way, if you're actually living in Narnia, you would be wiser than wherever you're living, because C.S. Lewis was really smart. So I don't know what alternative universe you're living in. You just don't want to face reality that governments tend to get tyrannical and that if people need an ability to protect themselves and their communities and their families.
Now, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price. 50,000, 50,000, 50,000 people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving — speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services — is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.
You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.
So then, how do you reduce? Very simple. People say, oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings? I don't know. How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows, there's all these guns. Because everyone's armed. If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?”
I can believe car deaths are bad but an acceptable trade-off for people being able to travel freely. Doesn’t mean I deserve to die in a car accident etc.
People being like “oh you care about Kirk being murdered but you don’t care about school shootings”
I care about both because I’m not a fucking psychopath. I’m talented that way.
One of the reasons why I think Charlie’s murder hits so hard, is because he was not President, he was not a billionaire, he was just a normal guy who sought out to have reasonable debates on college campuses, and loved his wife and kids. In other words the average person identifies with him on a very human level.
Think about the psychological profile of a guy who within mere seconds of seeing someone’s neck explode overrides every “There’s a shooter, I should run!” instinct to dance over a warm corpse. You pass people like this at work and the grocery store every day.
Charlie kirk was not ‘literally hitler’, hitler killed millions of people - Kirk Debated college kids
He is not comparable to George Floyd, Floyd was a violent criminal and a druggie, kirk was a Christian that debated college kids
He was not an extremist, far right, polarising.
HE LITERALLY JUST DEBATED COLLEGE KIDS
They're asking on tik tok if us conservatives now think if keeping the Second Amendment is worth it?
Yeah. Charlie was exercising his 1st amendment right and was assassinated. This is exactly why we need the Second Amendment.
The microphone Charlie Kirk had in his hand while his life was taken should be memorialized and placed in an American museum to recognize him and his work as a free speech activist forever
I don’t agree with 90% of the things Charlie stood for and said. I used to be a massive Stephen King lover.
But let’s be so fucking serious right now. He never, ever said that.
Don’t fucking lie to push a false narrative. This is why I don’t support SK anymore.