Charlie Kirk confirmed dead.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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There’s no way they would shut down a propaganda powerhouse like that. It’s tempting to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but the vast majority of times it’s really the simple explanations that count.
It honestly could be as simple as “a school shooting victim’s relative wants revenge against the speaker who ridiculed their tragedy.”
Occam's Razor.
The USA probably has a million (literally) gun owners capable of making that shot.
I don't know, 3" (or so) grouping at 200 yards under those conditions is objectively hard. I don't know anyone in my personal life that I think could make that shot
First of all; 200 yards with a rifle is a stupid easy shot. Rifles are zeroed in around 200 yards. A 20x scope would make the target look just 10 yards away.
Secondly; You ever hear of anyone shooting for the neck intentionally? No one would. The neck was an accident. They were aiming for the head or the chest and missed.
An ex army friend of mine said he'd be expected to make that shot with iron sights at 300m if he had an M4 after a year of training.
Not to say every backyard marksman is army trained, but it doesn't sound improbable.
Doesn't need to be a 3" grouping. Could have just gotten lucky. Could have been aiming center mass or for the head and wildly missed. But also he wasn't moving and 200 yards with a properly sighted in scope isn't too different from 100 yards and a properly sighted in scope.
Yeah, my guess was actually that they were aiming for his head (easier to get a clear shot at through a crowd, because center mass would likely be obscured by other people around him) and missed.
If they missed his forehead, it had to be on purpose
Why assume the shooter wasn't aiming for the torso or head. He could have been nearly 1ft off of where he was aiming for all we know.
Worked out though
Yeah. But there's what 350 million of y'all?
If you know fewer that 350 people well enough to know how well they shoot... then you might still know someone good enough to make the shot but don't know that they are.