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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.
This is a thing Charlie Kirk said.
“Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk said Monday on his podcast of the man who allegedly beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband Paul with a hammer last Friday. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out, I bet his bail’s like thirty or forty thousand bucks.” With a smirk, he added: “Bail him out and then go ask him some questions.”
This is a thing Charlie Kirk said.
Charlie Kirk was an awful human who believed awful things getting rich off of making the world a worse place.
I wish he wasn’t shot. I wish Melissa Hortman wasn’t shot. I wish those kids in Colorado going to school today weren’t shot.
Charlie Kirk being shot shouldn’t make a fucking difference, because we have normalized gun violence in this country and he has been a part of it. He and his ilk have fought to ensure we all live under the specter of gun violence. He is dead because of the world he was a part of creating and supporting. It’s his thoughts and prayers that bring us to this moment. We have let children die, year after year after year after year. I don’t feel worse because I knew the name of the person who died this time.
But I also don’t feel as furious as I normally am– Charlie Kirk more than earned my indifference– he’s earned my scorn and disdain.
Fuck gun violence, and fuck the people who are going to treat this differently because Charlie Kirk treated trans people like shit, gun victims like shit, non-white people like shit, non-Christians like shit.
He thought people like me and my family and my friends were shit. The feeling was mutual.