Yesterday, the nation seemed to pause for a couple of seconds in its track. An annoying, bigoted, Islamophobic, homophobic, raging Zionist (the list goes on) was shot in cold blood on video for everyone to see. The video was grotesque, the responses were all over the place, but one message was clear: “political violence has no place in America”.
It’s a bit ironic that he was shot while ranting about trans people being majority of the mass shooters in America (a false narrative) and redirecting a question about mass shootings to discuss “gang violence”. Charlie was vehemently against any kind of gun regulation, in fact, he didn’t even really empathize with victims of gun violence either.
At the end of the day, I only come down to one conclusion: the only thing that could’ve possibly saved Charlie Kirk was more gun regulation.
Let’s go through the facts:
It wouldn’t have mattered if Charlie Kirk was wearing a bullet proof vest, because he was shot in his neck.
It wouldn’t have mattered if he had a gun, and for the sake of the argument, let’s assume he had a pistol on him. He wouldn’t be able to defend himself because the sniper was reportedly 200 yards away. We all saw the video of him getting shot, and we all knew he wasn’t going to survive it. Let alone respond with a firearm.
His security detail was also not able to protect him.
Every time I think of it, I come down to the same exact conclusion: Charlie Kirk would’ve only been saved if more gun regulation was passed.
Our gun regulation in this country is a joke, and Utah is a Republican, open carry state.
The problem though, is that most people who are against gun regulation (like Charlie) believe that gun regulation = gun control. They think that it means the government will come in, take everyone’s guns, and it’ll eternally be the end of gun ownership in America.
All we are asking for is more extensive background checks that includes mental health history/evaluations. Trainings that go with the gun purchases. Making it much harder to buy a semi-automatic firearm, because let’s be honest, you don’t necessarily need it to survive.
Today’s article is meant to be short and sweet. The policy change that Charlie Kirk was so vehemently against, ended up being his own undoing.
His shooting happening at the same time of a mass shooting at a high school in Colorado is a representation of where this country is when it comes to gun regulation.
We are behind, it’s indeed a dangerous place to be, and our politicians are too busy drinking wine with their NRA lobbyists to do anything about it.
America deserves better. Our children deserve better, even though we brag that we are the most powerful nation in the world, guns are the number one cause of death for our youth. Children are practicing mass shooting drills rather than learning.
But then again, what did we expect from a country that was built off of the genocide of indigenous peoples, forced slavery and has caused either dozens of coups/wars across the world?
We were never a peaceful country, and expecting us to be is a bit naive in my opinion. History would tell you otherwise. We have always been a violent country, that has had no regard for marginalized people.
America, you need to wake up & accept the fact that political & mass shootings are your new normal.
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to realise that political assassinations & mass shootings are dramatically increasing and becoming the new normal in the US. This is the 3rd political murder in under four months. Another state senator, John Hoffman & his wife were seriously injured by the same gun man who killed Melissa & John Hortman. The shooting at the Catholic church in Minneapolis happened less than three weeks ago. And two students were injured by a gun man just a few days ago in Evergreen, before the killer turned the gun on himself. Two supposed attempts have been made on Donald Trump.
And as your economy and job market starts to tank and the cost of your groceries, gas price, medication, utility bills, higher Inflation rates, making borrowing costs and credit card interest payments higher, and Medicaid is deprived to fourteen million people, then people will start getting more and more desperate and angry.
Couple all the above with the cruel rhetoric and lack of empathy from your government for ordinary working and even middle class Americans, and you are sitting on a ticking time bomb of resentment, built up anger and desperation among the most deprived and vulnerable members of your society.
When ordinary people can't put food on the table, pay their rent and utility bills and above all, pay medical bills, or afford essential medication for their loved ones or family, then you have created a society of desperate people. And desperate people, resort to desperate measures.
Expect more armed burglaries, muggings, auto thefts, shop lifting. You will have to send your kids to school wearing bullet proof vests and drive around in bullet proof cars.
Mark my words, under this regime, with a wanna be, clueless dictator, whose grasp on basic economics is non existent, then the next three years and beyond is going to be hell on earth for most Americans. May God preserve you.
Behold - problem #1!
(1) You don’t even know what kind of gun he was shot with but you somehow know that gun restrictions are the answer. (2) You willfully (perhaps giving you too much credit) misinterpret Kirk’s response to the question that he posed when he was shot and (3) you happily bundle it all into the same grievance burrito that all progressive do while gleefully rationalizing away the murder of the father of two young children. YOU are the problem. People like you who can’t distinguish between spirited debate and violence because you’re too arrogant and brainwashed to even consider that there may be any possibility that you may be even slightly wrong about ANYTHING. Prove me wrong.