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Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment (www.newsweek.com)

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Do you think he was imaging it would be his own?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

According to NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting) the moments before the shooting were even more fitting:

Video posted on social media shows the moment Charlie Kirk was shot and the seconds leading to the incident. Kirk was being asked questions about mass shootings in America.

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

ETA Additional context: The person first asked how many mass shooters were transgender in the last ten years, Kirk said "Too many", the person said it's five, then asked the question about total mass shooters. I could infer it as an attempt to compare the two relative to amount of right-wing outrage over the gender identity of shooters.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago

He died doing what he loved, scapegoating African Americans.

Godbless.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I was saying earlier that the shooter must have been listening to a feed to time that shot perfectly to coincide with the question, but then my friend said "This is Charlie Kirk, you could have shot him at almost any time and it would have been wildly ironic and appropriate."