Posted on 09/12/2025 4:50:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Charlie Kirk is dead—struck down not by fate but by political hatred, murdered beneath a tent on a college green where the air should carry ideas, not the scream of an assassin’s bullet.
His killing at Utah Valley University was not the silencing of one man alone. It was an assault on the principles he lived for: civil discourse, free speech, constitutional accountability, and the American tradition of argument waged with words, not weapons.
Kirk was the “happy warrior”—a figure once familiar in American politics, now uncommon. He argued without apology, confident in his cause, yet willing to test it in the open square.
Turning Point USA was his creation—not a militia of grievance, but a student movement driven by optimism, humor, and the conviction that America was worth defending. To young conservatives marooned on hostile campuses, he gave voice, fellowship, and a steady anchor in rough waters.
Now that voice has been stolen.
And with it, one of Kirk’s own warnings returns to haunt us. He saw, more clearly than most, that an “assassination culture” was taking root on the left. He cited polls where shocking numbers of liberals admitted they would justify murder in politics. He warned it was the natural outgrowth of tolerating violence and mayhem in public life—a ticking time bomb.
That bomb has now exploded in Orem, Utah.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination must mark a national inflection point. Can we recover the civic virtue—in times past such a vital part of the American ethos, without which a republic cannot endure—the belief that citizens may disagree, even passionately, without resorting to violence?
Or will we surrender to a hellscape where voices are silenced for their point of view, where the bullet replaces the ballot, where terror replaces talk?
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I saw a poll where 55% of democRATs thought it would be acceptable to assassinate President Trump and 45% thought the same for Elon Musk. The level of hate on the left is growing all over the world.
Dear Charlton,
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Regards,
L
Sorry to burst your pacifist bubble, but we're already there. Don't forget: when you bring a knife to a gunfight, you lose.
Charlie Kirk was not even a politician. He was just a private citizen, who would go to campuses and talk with whomever would listen. He had NO governing authority. Yet the left was so coward by his presence, they felt compelled to kill him.
I do not know any personality on the left who is similar.
It’s as if Jen Psaki, Chris Mathews or James Carville were assassinated from a snipers bullet. Our side would never waste their time on such personalities.
It shows how very thin skinned the left is. I say it’s time they get a good dose of their own medicine. A reckoning is coming.
‘I say it’s time they get a good dose of their own medicine. A reckoning is coming.’
I agree.
Maybe our side should waste time eliminating the chiefs of staff of various Democrats to disrupt their operations & throw sand in the gears. The leftists are doing it & by their own bragging proclaim they won’t be peaceful till conservatives are dead. Make your plans accordingly.
The poisonous root of this is the tax system and the lack of tax caps in state and federal constitutions.
If the tax collections were at their maximum more votes couldn’t be bought, and more moochers would be unwanted by all.
Fighting to place tax caps in constitutions is a vote getter.
Republicans need every vote they can get.
The Kirk family should ASAP get lawyers to go after the murderer’s sources of hatred. Not all triggers are on guns.
Two main points to turn:
1. Turn back to God and follow His Holy plans.
2. Stop the complacency and distractions and start voting in midterm elections. There’s a force that wants conservatives to passively skip the midterms. The truth is every election has consequences. It’s notable the assassination happened right after conservatives skipped the Virginia midterms and lost ground.
Trump can’t do everything for us. We have to step up and do our part as well, and not just during presidential elections.
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