You know who you are and you should be ashamed.
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The other perpetrator is the President of the United States using Government leverage and power to silence a late night host for making jokes about Trump.
Perhaps you deem common murder and authoritarianism to be competitive outfit choices for cheerleaders.
I don’t. Grow up.
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Did you think of this hateful POS who shot Kirk as a hero?
Did you rationalize this evil with the “killing baby Hitler” Ends Justify the Means argument of the Left?
You won’t answer honestly, or defect I suspect.
Read the US Supreme Court decisions — Roper v Simmons, Graham v Florida, Miller v Alabama—addressing juvenile justice. These opinions rely heavily upon social science studies which demonstrate that young adults’ brains do not settle until age 25, earlier for females. These opinions discuss the impulsive nature of young adults, the lack of capacity to think pass the moment.
You often cite the high murder rates in cities. One of the big drivers is social media and the disrespect and slights and juvenile smack talk between players that escalates at mach speed, where the aggrieved party deems that the only fix is to kill the other party, thereby seizing the moment to payback the insult.
Kirk’s killing fits that same mold. But we get it: Kirk’s life has more value to you than some 19 year old black kid from an urban housing project.
Common murder. Yes.
You try to diminish Charlie Kirk and his murder with a pathetic race card non sequitor?!
You are absolutely part of the problem.
Btw, Charlie Kirk's murderer is white, trans, and a 22 yo adult - not a juvenile.
He planned his gruesome murder for wks. He practiced at a range with the rifle. He worked out a getaway and where to hide his weapon, and he knew he needed to retrieve it later (and failed).
Their was no temporary "heat of the moment" - he planned it coldly and evilly. he also shot into a crowded group of people from 200 yards
He specifically stated that he hated Kirk, and that he did not want dialogue but wanted to silence him permanently.
Stop rationalizing what Charlie Kirk's murderer did. You are just finding ways to camouflage your support of the killer. We all see through it.
Your pathetic attempt to tie in this trans violence with racism against blacks is ham handed - reminiscent of the nonsensical Animal House speech where Otter stands up and inanely claims, "I, for one, am not going to stand here and let you bad mouth the United States of America!"
Regarding my experience, you are again wrong. I have sadly been involved with a case where a young person was charged (and convicted) of murder. It also did not fit your stereotyped response.
And from someone who did work in the clinics of a major inner city hood worse than any place that you would dare go, let me tell you that only the most fake white liberal cracker pretending to be down with the brothers uses the term "urban housing project"!
In 2023, 17,927 out of 22,830 murders (79%) involved a firearm.
If you were to speak with the loved ones of those 18k victims who were shot and killed, their grief would be no less than what Kirk’s loved ones experience.
And no, Kirk’s death was not committed by “the left.” It was committed by an unstable 22 year old who was struggling with his identity, made worse by escalating cruelty towards transgender folks. We witness such cruelty on this Board daily. Our nation has witnessed mass shootings often perpetrated by young adults who feel completely outcast and isolated.
None of the above excuses or justifies the actions of the shooter in Kirk’s murder. But, trying to understand the “why?” as to shooter’s motive is an important step, as it is in any murder case.
Just watched camera footage from 3-4 properties that captured a daytime murder of a 19 year old, shot and killed by a 21 year old. Murder was orchestrated much like Kirk’s murder, with plan to catch victim by surprise. Senseless. Tragic. But not a national news story.
Like Kirk, one shooter. One perpetrator.
When you claim that people are "literally Hitler", fascists, an existential threat to democracy, "words are violence"; some young, impressionable and disaffected people will convert that rhetoric into violence. And that is what we are seeing.
Perhaps the closest thing that we have to Nazis is Hamas. And yet we have people from BLM on Twitter to supposedly bright students at elite universities posting shit like paragliders, "Globalize the Intifada"and "From the River to the Sea" after October 7th happened. This level of radicalization does not happen on its own. We are witnessing the left version of American History X.
You can't explain it away as random.
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The former is a senseless act of violence. A horrible event.
The latter is an act of repression directed by the president of the United States. A direct assault on the constitution.
And a bigger deal.
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Charlie can't be brought back from th3bdead but making more wrongs help no one. Our country and democracy will hopefully last longer than any of us.