BLAME CHARLES KIRK'S ASSASSINATION ON DONALD TRUMP: HE NORMALIZED VIOLENCE IN SPEECH, KNOWING THAT VIOLENT WORDS TRANSLATE INTO VIOLENT ACTS.
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Charlie Kirk is not someone to cry over. Right-wing extremist and white nationalist racist, a Trump sycophant. But his killing is nothing compared to the 20,000 Americans killed each year by gun violence.
See below for Kirk's advocacy of violence.
His rightwing buddies are threatening "WAR". It makes sense when Donald Dumb has now a Department of War.
The rightwing white extremists of the US realize that their supremacy since the founding of the country is slowly and inexorably is crumbling. They will no longer be a majority some time during this century. They have been preparing for this uprising - as amply demonstrated by Donald Dumb - with flooding the country with guns thanks to the NRA.
They need immigrants, but they hate immigrants. They need Jews but they hate Jews. They hate Black Africans. They hate Catholics. They hate Asians. They hate everyone who is not a white anglo-saxon protestant.
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WIRED:
‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Charlie Kirk, conservative activist who considered himself a defender of Jews and Israel, is dead at 31. But the conservative activist killed in Utah at times faced allegations of antisemitism from across the political spectrum.
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Kirk is one of many extremist rightwing white nationalist racists who at the same time:
- say they love Israel and Jews for obvious political convenience, because Israel is essentially a western colonial entity and its army is a Jewish American militia.
But:
- All extremist rightwing white nationalist racists are virulent antisemites, as their history testifies, but right now they keep their antisemtisim and hatred of Jews under the radar.
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Charlie Kirk once explained why he thinks gun deaths Are "Worth It"
He died by the same sword he was wielding
In light of his assassination, Kirk's vocal pro-gun stance is being reexamined.
One moment from 2023 is going particularly viral. In a resurfaced video from a Turning Point USA event, Kirk says, "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. Fifty thousand 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...is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road."
"We need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen," he continues. "But 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."
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MSNBC
During their coverage of Kirk’s shooting, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens.” Dowd responded with the following about Kirk: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
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REUTERS
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
John Shiffman, Ned Parker and Linda So
Thu, September 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM GMT+3·5 min read
Charlie Kirk fatally shot at Utah Valley University event
By John Shiffman, Ned Parker and Linda So
(Reuters) -The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
”This event is horrifying, alarming, but not necessarily surprising,” said Mike Jensen, a researcher at the University of Maryland, which has tracked such violence in a terrorism database since 1970.
In the first six months of the year, the U.S. experienced about 150 politically-motivated attacks — nearly twice as many as over the same period last year, said Jensen. “I think we are in a very, very dangerous spot right now that could quite easily escalate into more widespread civil unrest if we don't get a hold of it,” Jensen said. “This could absolutely serve as a kind of flashpoint that inspires more of it.”
Experts in domestic terrorism cite a convergence of factors for increased violence in the U.S.: economic insecurity, anxiety over shifting racial and ethnic demographics, and the increasingly inflammatory tone of political discourse. Traditional ideological divides — once centered on policy disagreements — have morphed into a deeper, more personal animosity. That anger is amplified by a mix of social media, conspiracy theories and personal grievances.
Reuters identified last year at least 300 cases of political violence across the U.S. between the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the 2024 presidential election, marking the most significant and sustained surge in such violence since the 1970s.
“Extreme political violence is increasingly becoming the norm in our country, and the shooting of Charlie Kirk is indicative of a far greater and more pervasive issue: acts of violence are becoming more common, even without any clear ideology or motive,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
“There's really a concern about what the blowback to something like this will look like.”
Other experts who study political violence agreed. “People are reluctant to engage in violence first, but they're much more willing to engage in violence as retaliation,” said Lilliana Mason, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University. “No one wants to be the one to start it, but lots of people want to be able to finish it.”
Kirk, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA, was addressing an outdoor crowd of about 3,000 at Utah Valley University when a gunshot rang out, sending him tumbling from his chair and attendees fleeing in panic.
Authorities had not yet publicly identified a suspect by Wednesday evening, nearly six hours after the shooting. FBI Director Kash Patel said an unnamed "subject" had been detained for questioning and then released.
Kirk, 31, was a pioneer in the conservative movement and harnessed the power of social media to lure millions of young Americans into Trump’s MAGA base.
“No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States better than Charlie,” Trump said in a social media post announcing Kirk’s death.
“VICIOUS SPIRAL”
Trump himself was the subject of two assassination attempts last year. In one, the shooter was killed by authorities seconds after he fired. In the other, a man was arrested carrying a rifle and scope near a Palm Beach golf club where Trump was playing. His trial began this week.
In addition to those, two recent high-profile attacks by right-wing conspiracy theorists this year shook lawmakers and government workers across the country. In June, a Christian nationalist murdered a senior Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota, and wounded a second Democrat. In August, a gunman obsessed with COVID-19 conspiracies sprayed gunfire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer.
Since January, at least 21 people have been killed in political violence incidents, 14 of them in a car bomb attack in New Orleans by a jihadist claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group early on New Year’s Day.
In May, a pro-Palestinian activist murdered two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, and told police after his arrest, “I did it for Gaza,” according to court documents.
In July, a group of at least 11 militants in black military-style clothing attacked an immigration detention center in Texas, the Justice Department said. The group set off fireworks, spray-painted “traitor” and “ICE Pig” on vehicles, and shot a responding police officer in the neck, wounding him, while another sprayed gunfire at detention guards, the FBI said.
Since returning to office, Trump has scaled back efforts to counter domestic extremism, redirecting resources toward immigration enforcement and citing the southern border as the top security threat.
Jensen, the University of Maryland researcher who tracks violence for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, said the future appears grim.
“This is an administration that, whether you agree with it or not, has made profound changes to this country in the eight months it’s been in office,” he said. “Some people love it, some people hate it. The people that hate it are starting to act out. People who love it are going to act out against those people that hate it, and it becomes a vicious spiral that could lead us into something really, really bad.”
(Additional reporting by Peter Eisler. Editing by Jason Szep)
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