A Bit to Read

Charlie Kirk succumbed to the 2nd Amendment yesterday in the only school shooting republicans have ever cared about. He died doing what he loved, arguing for unrestricted gun control in a booth that said “Prove Me Wrong.”

In the past, Charlie said about gun violence:

But I think it’s worth it. 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.”

So one might say Charlie took one for the team.

If you’ve followed me for any time at all, you know I don’t believe in gun ownership. Any gun ownership. At all. I don’t delight in gun violence, no matter who the victim, no matter how, apparently, willing. This death by bullet shouldn’t have been possible.

I won’t talk about political violence because at this point that it was politically-motivated is a complete assumption. It could have been absolutely anything.

But.

I’m also not going to dredge up fake sentiment for a bigoted, hate-fueled ghoul who delighted in spreading racism, antisemitism, misogyny, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and every other kind of bigotry I may have left out.

Oh ableism. He actually complained about sign language interpreters used to spread information during the LA wildfires, and called them a “joke.”

If you have someone in your life who is in any way “mourning” his passing, present them with an array of his bigotries and ask them which was their favorite. Bonus points if you can do this in front of others. They may not speak to you anymore, but if they liked a man that repugnant, what’s the loss?

It also dominated over another school shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado, which left the shooter dead and two other students wounded, one critically.

And of course, this news is brushing aside the unjustifiable raid of the Hyundai plant in Georgia, republicans voting to protect epstein’s co-traffickers in the Senate, and donald’s threat to “wipe out” Portland and go to war with Chicago, causing a “Chipocalypse.”

Talk about incitement to violence. And yet they’re saying it’s the “violent rhetoric,” of liberals that got us here.

Uh.

No.

It also may have diverted from a donald health event, because people are saying his face appears to be drooping in pictures. My physician father was unconvinced by the single photo, but who knows.

MSNBC senior political analyst Matthew Dowd was fired for saying what kind of person Charlie was, and that was before the news he actually died. All he said is Charlie’s own words may have incited the shooting.

Which is, when you think about it, exactly what republicans are saying in accusing Charlie’s 2nd Amendment swan song, so to speak, of being a liberal act.

And let’s be clear, it absolutely wasn’t one of us, the person they’re now saying “blended in” among the students at Utah Valley University, reportedly jumped from a roof, and then made his getaway.

Besides who among us has the time to perfect a single shot at 200 yards and then vanish seemingly into thin air? We’re too busy drinking our soy yogurt hemp lattes, dreaming of ways to make DEI even DEIer and reading Elitist Weekly.

I suspect this of being something else entirely, but we’ll have to wait and see if anyone is apprehended.

In case you think I am lacking in empathy, I am proceeding simply as Charlie would, and that is perhaps the most “respectful” thing a person could do. I leave you with his very own words:

I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage

And we wouldn’t want to do that.

Have a great Thursday.