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This article documents a recent shooting. Information may change rapidly and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information.

e; updated title from "Attempted assasination of Charlie Kirk" and link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assasination_of_Charlie_Kirk

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Attempted?! I’m already wondering when and where the funeral is going to be so I know where to have my next dance celebration

[–] lime@feddit.nu 29 points 1 week ago

it's "confirmed dead" now

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean we don't know until we know, you know? I'm no doctor, but miracles happen and evil never dies

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

I guess sometimes miracles do happen crab-partycrab-partycrab-party

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Give it an hour or two; Wikipedia mods work quick as info comes out.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Title has changed now. He’s dead

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His wife's wiki page is interesting

Swiss Cheesed in the Utah Hood

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

If only someone who understood how English works had written that

[–] AndiHutch@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From wiki: Accordingt [sic] to BNO News and other sources, Kirk was confirmed to have died.[14]

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Assuming its not a "release the list" rightwinger who pulled the trigger, this is a potential reichstag event.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Shit, they don't have the guy in custody. They grabbed the wrong guy. Could be anyone.

Either I hope they just get away or they capture them and its some rightwing nutjob.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

Won't matter who did it, they'll try to claim it was a Democrat, just like the event during The Dipshit's campaign

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hard to see how right winger could become anymore accepting of government violence against their fellow Americans, but, yeah, I hope everyone moving through right wing spaces is safe because they are going to want some kind of vengeance for this

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It can definitely get a lot worse.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How? Are they gonna assassinate lawmakers? Commit hate crimes? Vote for a fascist and have goon squads go around and abduct people off the street without due process?

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

For real, we’re getting at that “nothing left to lose” point

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I understand your point, but I'm telling you: it can get worse. Right now they're only sampling those things. Dipping their toes. In fact, this whole "Occupy major cities with the National Guard" shit has been fishing for an incident between civilians and troops to justify putting the hammer down. They want to go further and intensify what they're already doing, but they need a reichstag event. That's what this potentially is, but they could fumble it. Hopefully they do fumble and Charlie Kirk's death just becomes a footnote.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't know the shooter got away! That don't hurt my feelings a bit.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

oh no, a saint with a gun is on the loose!

For legal reasons this is a joke.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure they'll find him in a Wendy's in Arizona with the rifle and manifesto or something

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 week ago

Deff going to be a lib too to prove a point

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Already locked due to an edit war over whether to include the recording in the infobox 🙄

Good riddance!