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Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck during a student Q&A at Utah Valley University. Follow Newsweek's rolling coverage.
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    3 days ago

    FYI - links to the gore video will be removed if it is not properly marked as NSFW/NSFL.

    Yes, it’s bad. This is not like the Trump “maybe it was faked with razor blades” kind of thing.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    Can someone please reply to this comment with a link to the video, making sure to mark your comment “nsfw”?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I saw an unironic comment on one of the outlets reporting the shooting, and it was “All the liberal violence has got to end”.

    I mean…WTAF? No one even knows who the shooter is yet, do they? And how many instances are there of liberal violence?

    I bet that same dipstick thinks that J6, the Proud Boys, The 3%ers, the Oathkeepers, and all the other right-wing domestic terrorist groups, are all fine, too…

  • Heywaitaminute@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Violence is never the answer, until it is the only answer. We have been approaching that point and it’s just going to get worse. The Luigis out there will keep this up whether it is the right or wrong way to do things. All we can do is watch or try and fix it. Too few are even trying.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      May the gods judge him fairly in accordance with the life he lived. I bear no further ill will towards him and wish him well in his coming journey. I’m grateful he has stopped hurting people and only wish it had happened differently

  • JHRD1880@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t want him to die, but I have to be honest: I struggle to find a lot of sympathy.

    The same guy who said gun deaths are ‘unfortunately worth it’ to keep the second amendment.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I don’t want people to die, in general, either

      but he also doesn’t have any place in this world. doesn’t really leave a lot of options

      I guess what I’m saying is I wish he were the kind of person who deserved to live. but that’s not what he chose to be

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        When he had a chance of recovery my hope was that he had his Paul of Tarsus moment of conversion. It wasn’t going to happen because that was a bullet to the neck and he was him, but I’d always rather the evil turn towards good and strive for better. But ultimately I’m glad he has stopped preaching hate

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      3 days ago

      He wants you to die, and is cool with every child that was shot in a school shooting in the past 20 years. He can rot in hell. Some people have earned the fate they received.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    “Utah Valley University spokeswoman Ellen Treanor has confirmed to the New York Times that Charlie Kirk was struck by a gunman positioned in the Losee Center, a building approximately 200 yards from the event site.”

    Unlike Mr.Kirk, I’m in favor of much stronger gun control, but that was quite an accurate shot, harmed nobody else, and well timed for context. Unlike the idiots trying to shoot Trump and either killing another person or not even getting a shot off

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    My first reaction was “oh awesome” but now that I’ve read what happened I hate that he is now going to use this to further his agenda. And trump will react against the universities

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Ya know I’ve been saying for years the best way to remove Republican influence is to put the propagandists to the sword. Thusly I am not only fully okay with this, I fucken support it.