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[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 143 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

There's so many layers of irony to this event. You can't make this shit up.

A man, who made a career downplaying gun violence and advocating against empathy for its victims, was shot while giving a talk about his favorite topic under a tent that said "Prove me wrong", on a college campus in a state that just lifted its ban on weapons on college campuses. His own quotes can be endlessly used to shut down any outrage at his ironic demise.

Charlie Kirk's final moments were spent being definitively and completely proven wrong.

If this wasn't going to used as an excuse to ban Trans people from owning firearms and for further violence against the opposition, it would be hilarious.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago

In hindsight the sign should have said "what are you going to do, shoot me?"

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks to the "good guy with a gun" who protected the world from this guy.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 24 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Busting out the cigars and celebrating this. Finally some good news. Sending thoughts and prayers

My thoughts:

My prayers:

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"So we need a bigger distraction. Like Horst Wessel meets Reichstag fire." I wonder if someday we'll find out Trump ordered it.

Or maybe it's just chickens coming home to roost.

Or most likely of all, far-right faction fighting.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 43 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

A moment of silence on the floor of the US House of Representatives over Charlie Kirk’s killing has turned into a shouting match between Republicans and Democrats.

The commotion began when Republican representative Lauren Boebert rose after the moment of prayer to ask that the House also say a prayer for Kirk, according to multiple lawmakers who were on the floor during the incident, Axios reports.

Democrats then shouted “what about the kids in Colorado”, referring to a school shooting in Colorado that also occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Boebert responded that she was about to reference that tragedy before she was interrupted, the report continues.

Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna, who worked as Kirk’s director of Hispanic engagement at Turning Point USA, then stood up and yelled at Democrats: “You caused this!”

That prompted a raucous Democratic response, with Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, a leader on the gun violence prevention task force, shouting: “Pass some gun laws!”

Footage of the commotion from C-Span can be seen here on Instagram.

Source: Guardian.com live updates feed, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17#block-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17

[–] Philamand@jlai.lu 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

after the moment of prayer

They have a moment of prayer at a government meeting ? Did I misunderstood something?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

You miss the separation of church and state.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A fucking prayer on the floor?

Wtf

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (17 children)

I just want to point out some things since everyone is assuming it was a leftist shooter:

  1. No one knows who the shooter actually is.
  2. Most leftist reactions I've seen to Kirk have been to laugh at his stupidity, not get murderously angry at him.
  3. No political message has appeared yet, like the one Luigi put on the bullets he used. Which if you're a leftist shooter, come on you gotta at least do that homage.
  4. The shooter killed him with one shot from a distance and got out without being caught.
  5. I've never met a leftist who knows how to shoot a gun, nevermind one with that level of skill. If it was a leftist, I'm surprised they couldn't catch them by now by simply arresting the one leftist who knows how to shoot at long distance.
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But Kash Patel is on the case! They had the wrong guy detained for hours and the real shooter is gonzo. Some random lefty in Birkenstocks and a ponytail did not make that shot from 520ft.

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 8 hours ago

Whats hilarious is that they say it was “radical left” people every time, and yet ultimately it always trickles out later that the person who did it was either politically conservative, or just generally a nut. To my knowledge no one has actually ever shot anyone because they held progressive or liberal beliefs.

The guy who “shot” Trump, accused liberal but verified conservative. The guy who hid at Trumps golf course trying to do the same? Verified conservative. The trans highschool shooter from a couple weeks ago? Accused liberal, but was actually just a straight up nazi glorifier. Like id give it better odds that the person who shot Kirk was a conservative who was mad about the Epstein files, just like the kid who tried to assassinate Trump was. Id say its also not far fetched that Kirk was a sacrificial lamb executed by his own party in order to secure the young conservative vote by generating a martyr. Its at least way more likely than someone with progressive and humanistic beliefs shooting him, considering assassinations and humanism dont exactly go hand in hand. Not to mention its suspicious as fuck that he was shot from a crowd and they somehow didnt catch the shooter…

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 7 points 8 hours ago

AFAIK evidence linking Luigi to the murder of the health insurance parasite is pretty thin.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 hours ago

Okay, all reasonable but number 5, that's dumb, humans pick their hobbies more or less at random. Fuck it could be a teenage Mormon missionary with a gun fetish for all we know.

All I'm saying is if my sweet old southern grandma didnt pull me aside one day and show me her fucking sword collection I would be a different man

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

This is a very stupid list, speaking as a leftist.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You know who has lots of people who can shoot well at long distances?

The government.

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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Being realistic the person shooting probably did disagree with his politics but until the shooter is caught we have no idea what the motives were. And there are other credible possibilities - a political / financial / personal rival, an opportunist / fantasist, a hit, or even a false flag. For all anyone knows he fucked the wrong dude's wife. When the perp is caught we'll find out.

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