They say you should only say good things about the dead.

Charlie Kirk is dead. Good.

You took the thoughts and prayers right out of my mouth

Sir this is Wendy not Reddit

shot on the carotid artery? that's a lotta damage

I think it's time to stop being so nice about it. People like him encourage cruelty and violence. I think it's time to stop treating them with empathy until they learn his to be civil human beings again.

Agreed

I am. It's a reality of humanity. Most of us would like peace myself included. But to have peace, you have to be able to defend it. You can't be passive. It's kind of the idea of why you would have military, people ready and willing to fight to preserve the peace from those that end peace.

My great-grandfather wasn't exactly sad when he helped take down the Nazis. And I'm not going to be particularly sad when taking down a neo-Nazi. Sorry, they like to be called maga now.

Spewing horrific quantities of shit better left inside, traumatizing and radicalizing all young people that witness it?

Yeah sounds right

The most respectful thing we can do is honor his beliefs:

"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." - Charlie Kirk

""I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage" - Charlie Kirk

"Guns save lives" - Charlie Kirk

Yea this made the closet conservatives come out from under the woodwork. Instagram was awash with people posting his family photos that are otherwise outwardly apolitical.

I feel like it’s cruel but this should be posterized and waved around his funeral. Maybe the people dressed in black will understand the concept of empathy then, violence really does seem to be the only language a fascist understands.

Well damn. That's some effective magic lol

I can't find video since everything is flooded with news people talking about it and won't show the actual footage. Got a link?

Edit: found one on mastodon. It's extremely NSFL. Do not watch if even remotely squeamish. I fucking hate that motherfucker and it was still pretty tough to watch. Very lights-out.

Warms the ground, briefly.

Also American society needs serious unfucking at all levels. Conservatives are bonkers but the "gun deaths are due to mental health issues" argument has merit; healthy and well-adjusted people don't grab the closest murder weapon and kill random people. Guns are a scapegoat so that politicians can avoid addressing the real issues.

It was clearly a lucky missed shot. Nobody with any training would aim at the neck intentionally. So, the shooter missed the target but still hit a vital spot. Could be they aimed at his head and didn't account for the Earth's gravity pulling the bullet down. Or maybe they aimed at his chest and didn't account for his head's gravity pulling the bullet up.