General Discussion

On April 5, 2023, Charlie Kirk told us that gun deaths in America – which are 11 TIMES the number of gun deaths per capita in other high-income nations, driven primarily by a firearm homicide rate that is 25 TIMES that of comparable nations* – are an acceptable “cost” of their "righteous," extremist, reactionary opposition to ALL gun regulation, no matter how modest the measure or how many lives the measure would save.

I suspect that it never occurred to him that he would be one of those deaths he believed are "worth it."

While I grieve the manner of his death as a tragic reflection of the intolerable level of gun violence in our nation, I do not grieve the loss of a man who called for some "amazing patriot" to bail out Paul Pelosi’s attacker.

Link to tweet

Clarence Darrow’s quote comes to mind:



*2015 numbers