Posted on 09/10/2025 6:39:23 PM PDT by TBP
2 facts about Charlie Kirk’s killer are VERY rare in the modern history of assassinations…
1) Firing ONLY one shot & it being perfect
2) Eluding capture until at least nightfall that day
I would be willing to bet that this was not this killer’s 1st rodeo, & he may be a “pro.”
I don’t know how many times I have to say it wasn’t a perfect shot. The shooter was either aiming for the head or the chest of a stationary target and in both instances the shooter missed what he was aiming at at 200 yards. It’s an amateur shooter
It’s odd that the final two questions asked to Charlie were on the subject of gun violence and mass shooters.
I don’t think it was a pro. A somewhat competent shooter who probably had never practiced shooting down hill, which will make the shot go high.
A couple of months ago somebody claimed on their deathbed that yet another bullet was in the limo with Kennedy. And the broken windshield of the limo was replaced somewhere.
The bad guys are getting better. Two or three distractions this time.
Because it wasn't the Secret Service preparing for a Presidential event (and as seen in Butler, even that doesn't work out so well).
Short press conference after the event indicated the entire University police force was there, a whopping 6 officers, working a crowd of 3000.
They were probably more worried about fights breaking out so would be all on the ground and not covering the rooftops.
It wasn’t “perfect,” unless you’re some jackass on the internet running your fool face.
It appears someone did a better job of thinking it out, planning, and putting it into operation than those who attempted to assassinate President Trump.
There are probably a few million people in the United States who have the skills to do this.
The number who have the motivation to do such an assassination is a very small percentage of that number. Most people want to keep the polity of the United States intact.
This did not require a “pro” but it did require some skills and planning.
Every Conservative speaker cannot afford a Presidential level of security.
I'm a little put off by the speculation on TV that this was a professional "hit." I'm not saying that it's not possible, but I am saying that the implications, if one thinks about it more closely, go to places that are unthinkable.
What could Kirk have possibly done to garner that much hatred that someone would seek out a pro to do this?
However...
That would check the "professional" box, if this is the case. Doing it in Mormon Country might have been "icing on the cake," because it was a place where a certain complacency towards crime might have settled in.
On another note...
I'm sure that the FBI is looking at all the cell phones in the area that pinged the towers during the event, and if any of those phones are now pinging hundreds or thousands of miles away by now? If this were a professional, that person would have either used a burner phone or had no phone at all in their possession.
I'd assemble the set of cell phones that pinged during the event, and then map those cellphone movements during the rest of the day. How many remained on campus? How many traveled to nearby homes? How many have not pinged at all since the shooting? Look for the cell phone that seems out of place.
-PJ
I know it wasn’t the Secret Service.
The Security detail STILL should have had the rooftop issue covered. That is their job.
Charlie was on Next Up with Halperin yesterday. This is surreal.
John Solomon (RAV/Just the News) was saying, earlier, that the bullet his Charlie’s bullet-proof vest and ricocheted to his neck.
No idea if this is even a possibility...from the look of the wound on his neck.
So right. Head shot he was 6 to 8 inches low. Center mass shot 6 to 8 inches high. Not the work of a pro.
Professional military snipers would be expected to hit moving targets at five times that distance.
The shooter likely aimed for center mass and hit a little high.
Yes, Charlie was wearing a bulletproof vest but if you've got a rifle, you're not too concerned about that vest.
I could be wrong, but I doubt a Turning Point speaking event has anything like the security detail of a major political rally by a leading candidate. And we shouldn't live in a society where someone speaking peaceably on campus as Kirk was wont to do, should need such efforts.
Of a good deer hunter.
Yes, things will have to move indoors for a while I guess. And there’s gonna have to be some laws passed where anybody who’s in the peripheral or associated in some shape perform and supporting the shooter goes away for life. Similar to a hare crime, a political assassination has to come within insanely high levels of punishment for all involved.
Are the speakers pre screened or first cone first up?
Charlie didn’t have Secret Service protection. I guess that didn’t do POTUS a lot of good though.
Mostly local guys and some of his own. Obviously nobody on rooftops.
You would think they could use drones flying over the areas looking at rooftops or something.
You think this really matters?
Give it a rest. No one cares.
You sound like an ass.
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