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Takket

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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:54 PM Sep 10

No one should shed a tear for Charlie Kirk [View all]

He believed things like school shootings were a necessary evil to protect the more important 2nd amendment, so we could have unrestricted access to weapons to defend ourselves from an oppressive government. His death is the ultimate manifestations of the rights and beliefs he fought so tirelessly for. While his death is surely a tragic time for his friends and family, for his political followers, what could be more satisfying than to say his beliefs were so important to him, that he died for them? An America where guns are controlled is not an America he wanted to live in, so why should there be sorrow from his followers that America is now exactly the place he wanted it to be? If it is preferable to live in a country with mass school shootings, then surely Kirk would apply those same principles to his own life, and tell you that even if he was killed by firearm, that would be preferable to anything else.

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