Another act of political violence in America. And we ALL again have a choice to make. We either use this shooting to get partisan, or we condemn ALL political violence. A month ago, 2 Minnesota Democrats were shot: NEITHER SIDE has a monopoly on political violence. So choose.
Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer was a punchline for Republican leadership.
Thoughts and prayers
This post won't age well after the shooter is revealed to be a white, male, MAGA loon who is furious with Kirk for carrying Trump's water in the Epstein cover up.
Sometimes it’s just self defense. Many Americans live, with the threat of violence from Charlie Kirk’s poison, every day of their lives.
Thoughts and prayers did I do that right?! 🙃
Big deal. You can slaughter 49 gay people at the Pulse in Florida. Promote guns and gay hatred endlessly, and I'm going to feel sorry for this racist, bigoted trash? Not likely. You really don't get it.
Choose which again? Is deportation political? Considering the racists in the GOP. That's not political violence? Family separation of families from young children? That's bipartisan? Is the genocide in Gaza political? It's going to get a lot more violent before these fuckers are set aside.
Catch is that the political Reich WILL try and weaponize this.
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I'm sorry, hundreds of mass shootings, including the horrific ones that have taken place in schools taking the lives of CHILDREN, have not moved the needle, but the shooting of fucking Charlie Kirk will?? Hooray for that douchbag Charlie!
Do we know the motivation yet? I haven’t seen any real updates yet.
Almost no coverage of the Colorado school shooting that happened within minutes of the Kirk shooting.
You right wing clowns squished Americans into desperation and when people snapped you act surprised?
HIS BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS ASSHOLE
Charlie Kirk believes school shootings are small price to pay for the fun of sporting an AR in the Walmart parking lot. == Kirk also believes abortion is murder and should be illegal. Kirk opposes exceptions for rape.
No school shootings in China. US has easy access to guns. It's the guns.
There was also a school shooting in Colorado. But hey,the politicians cant do better than the current situation
Just remember that the President of the United States showed no empathy or concern over the assassination of the two MN Democrat lawmakers.
When he said we have to get over it after a bunch of kids were killed last summer.
Exactly, he showed he was a partisan turd
800+ politically motivated shootings in the past decade were committed by people identifying as far right. Less than a dozen were committed by leftists.
When the other side consistently condemns all political violence instead of ignoring when libs get attacked, I'll consider moderating my emotional response.
I condemn it for sure, but I have better things to lose sleep over
It is sad that I long for the days of debates on policy and reforms over what is now finger-pointing and blame games, fake facts, lies and influencers paid to pedal fake facts and lies to sew doubt and create division.
America chose after Sandy Hook. We want our guns and we don’t care who dies from gun violence- except for a few hours or days after it happens.
Violence is NEVER the solution. Guns are not the answer for being angry at someone.
Nitpicky. 2 Democrats (one lawmaker & spouse) were KILLED. Additionally, Democrats shot but survived.
Simply stating "neither side" is making this a partisan issue. You're attributing political motives to the killing.
Starvation in Gaza is political violence too, right?
Where do we insert “thoughts and prayers “
not one republican condemned the Minnesota assassinations/injuries. Not one republican condemned the pelosi attack - Fox News & Trump made fun of that attack. Both parties are not the same. senator Mike Lee made fun of the Melissa Hortman assassinations. Tells you everything you need to know.
Some innocent kids were shot at a school AGAIN today but of course no one cares. Only Charlie Kirk gets the attention.
Four MN Democrats were shot - two were murdered. I pray that Charlie Kirk is ok. He has a wife and family and people who love him. But let's just be real.
But in only one case did the victim spend his life publicly advocating for the right to be able to kill people with a gun, even going so far as to say gun deaths are worth it as long as we can keep having unfettered access to guns. So it’s hard to feel sad about him getting something he wanted
America, every time this happens: ‘this is not who we are’. The civilised world: ‘oh yes it is’.
How bad do things have to get for political violence to be justified?
Quindi sparare in scuole, concerti, negozi e chiese va ancora bene? Kirk è quello che devi convincere, non noi che abbiamo implorato una legislazione razionale sulle armi. Tutto questo farà è generare milioni di dollari per Kirk e i suoi compagni fascisti pazzi di pistola!
Not political, he holds no office. Simply a gun violence that he loved!
Joe, Political violence is happening whether you want to accept it or not, what do you call occupying US cities, what do you call rounding up people and sending them to El Salvador death camps because they are brown, it's all political violence in America.
Exactly. Is since the start of this admin that you're suffering from politica violence. Or maybe even before that, if you count misinformation as hybrid warfare.
We have been choosing all along…especially since the sandy hook massacre of kindergarteners. The Republican Party has thwarted every attempt to make the right choice. Don’t both sides this Joe. You’ve come a long way. Don’t blow it now.
Maybe after the school shootings haven't done it, this is an opportunity to look at your country's crazy pro-gun politics. Nobody else in the developed world understands the US gun laws.
We can choose all we want while the President perpetrated political violence against members of Congress and pardoned the criminals who helped do it. Your heads in the ground.
Democrats are ready and waiting to pass common sense gun laws. Republicans are waiting to find out who the shooter is. If Trump sent them, it’s no big deal. Whatever they look like, SCOTU6 just gave cops permission to stop anyone who has the same skin color on suspicion of murder.
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Unfortunately, as deteriorating and sick of a country as the U.S. is now, we all know what choice will be made.
"NEITHER SIDE has a monopoly on political violence." True, but only one side lives in an alternate reality that often glorifies violence. TV ads of candidates shooting guns? 99% of the ads are Republican ones.
Trump has troops on the ground, is invading our cities and taking away the rights of americans. How the fuck did you think this was gonna turn out Joe? It was never gonna be peaceful and Trump and Miller have been pushing for something to happen for a while now.
If it were Miller that were being shot, I'd agree with you. Charlie Kirk seems like an odd target, though, since he seems to primarily be a culture warrior and he isn't in control of the military or the police.
Charlie Kirk has been anti everything for a LONG LONG time and has stirred up shit with Turning Point not so much debating as indoctrinating. Watch his events, hes a complete ass who had a huge following of incels and easily duped ijits. It was inevitable. That it didnt happen sooner is amazing
Perhaps neither side has a monopoly, but your people sure seem to hold the lion's share of it.
Pres says other Americans are the enemy and to fight fight fight, who the hell do you think is to blame?
Many of us have chosen. More Americans than not want sensible gun reform. The NRA and the radical right DO NOT. So tell us, Joe, how do we do it???
Let’s not forget the CDC attack, it’s been a rough summer. Joe, it’s the guns, you don’t want to here it, but it’s the guns
I am not saying that what happened to Charlie is right, but your statement clearly points to the fact what side Charlie was on. He advocated for Democrats to be killed and even said after a school shooting that shooting are necessary to keep the 2nd amendment.
It could have been a father who's kid he was brainwashing. We choose Democracy & fighting to keep it alive. Our children are vulnerable to the Trump propaganda machine & the spread of it by the likes of Charlie Kirk is unacceptable. The Radical Right is going to be voted OUT to save our country.
One side has been trying to choose the right thing for years, while the other fights tooth and nail to make sure anyone with a pulse can own guns. Until they have had enough, I don’t see how this gets any better - and they never seem to have “had enough”
100% despicable. As a country, we have lost nothing today.
I'd hold off on that until we know more about the shooter and their motivations. It would not surprise me in the slightest to find that this person decided Charlie Kirk had betrayed them for whatever reason - for example, by reversing course on the Epstein Files.
You're assuming the propagandists are open-minded to a common sense gun control and proper political discourse.
We need to stop separating political violence from other violence. Just say violence is bad. Full stop.
Better talk to the 🍑🤡ASS🕳️Cult Leader donOLD. 🚽. trump He is posting violence against the “radical left” . Again he is inciting violence. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
The “right” poo pooed it off Joe. MAGA did . It’s disgusting. They come up with shitty excuses for everything. Meanwhile, reasonable people understand free speech and the constitution is real, and do not condone violence like this. Charlie is a cunt, but free speech can’t be shot in the neck and die
This absolutely shouldn’t have happened. Political violence is absolutely wrong. Charlie Kirk is part of the problem, however.
Quit the false equivalence. The rhetoric of violence, and acts of it (ICE, anyone?) are coming from the Right for quite a while. You are getting close to the red line of apologetics for MAGA.
As always it’s the easy access to guns too. You’ll never mention that
1. That was THREE months ago. 2. Until we can talk about gun reform laws and pass legislation, it IS a partisan issue. 3. Because of #2, we will continue to see more of this. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
"I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." -- Charlie Kirk (2023)
Correct, no one has a monopoly on political violence, it was just announced that Charlie Kirk just has died! Shame on all of us who have such hatred in their heart, because we disagree! This is not the America I grew up in and ashamed that my grandchildren has to live in such a hateful country!
Everyone of us has a duty to STOP the Vicious Hate that we have for each other, because of differences, whether it be politically, religiously or race and nationality! I am scared that we will never be united as a nation again. Not because we can’t be but because, the hate is too emedded!
Somebody must have grabbed their musket 🤷🏽♂️
My dad used to say it's best not to employ political violence against even the worst of the worst. It only guarantees they get sympathy and recognition they don't deserve.
Most repugs did not even acknowledge it.. real sad.
When everybody is packing heat, and tensions start to rise, the end result is inevitable. That is the problem, the current administration has made violence their calling card. They round up and kidnap people off the streets, send in troops to show force, the bomb other countries, threaten to invade
I lived through the incident in Minnesota. Trump administration's reaction to this shooting vs. the shooting of two Dems and their spouses is loud and clear. Trump perpetuates hate/partisanship even in the worst of times, which only empowers his base even more.
