passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood

We're all used to it. It's usually footage of kids massacred by Israel.

Tell your kids not to watch it if other kids are showing it

The far away video is enough. I don't want more. As a human with a heart and a pacifist? This is so wrong.

Thank you.

I'm desensitizing myself in various ways before watching it

Near two years of genocide has desensitised me enough at this point unfortunately

Thank you for showing how to shut off auto play 😢

➕1

Suit yourself but personally watching him get rocked feels like fucking therapy for me, I get a frisson of cathartic relief and healing each time I see it. Doing wonders for *my* mental health, I can’t wait to see the hilarious edits rolling out soon, maybe a dubstep one.

I really really really should have listened to you.

Watch what?

Okay got it

Nah, watch it on repeat and understand what necessary violence looks like

Nobody should be shot, guns are bad, and Charlie Kirk found that out the hardest way.

yeah i'm celebrating it happening but like watching it happen is not exactly healthy.

Don’t go to Drudge right now either, as I just found out

I never watched the Daniel Pearl beheading video and I’ll never watch the Charlie Kirk video. Political violence is abhorrent, even if we don’t agree with the victim. Revisit 2A, for our country and our kids.

Unless there's another video out there, the video doesn't have any gore or brutality. Basically looks like he got stung by a bee. Although the fact it looks so innocent is somewhat disturbing.

There is a second video from ground level, very close to the stage. It is very graphic.

Thanks for the heads up!

There is a much closer video that shows much more. I do not recommend looking for it.

Thanks for the heads up!

ooh I didn't know we were sharing gorey shit I want in

That was gore? Either way yeah no way in hell that guy woulda made it. Looks like a major artery was hit with all that blood. Hope the kids get out into foster care and get the hell outta there. Can't imagine the kinda father he was.

I can't look at an innocent dying or a kid getting murdered, but I have no problems watching an SOAB doing the "room temperature challenge" as gun nuts like him say, the red fountain looked brutal but most pathetic.Ain't that what he wanted? But anyways, this is the only way to deal with fascists...

I'll trust you on this one because I have a weak stomach but they need to add these settings the app so we don't have to log in from a web browser. I mean, that's not your problem though.

Graphic descriptions also really aren't necessary in a thread geared toward those who would like to avoid this

Just had it blasted at me as the first thing I saw on here, so thanks, BS. Yeah, dude is dead. Ain't no way.

I have auto-play turned off by default on every site. I NEVER want any video to auto play. This is just good practice in general so you don't get surprised by something like this.

Omg thank you

okay baby

Bizarrely, seems like there's no way to do this in IOS.

Those are the instructions for iOS. I just did it myself

Where? It's not in settings. It's nowhere in the app itself, AFAICT.

Go to the home tab on the far left, hit the 3 bars in the top left corner and then follow those instructions.

I am a dumbass. Thank you.

That close up video is nightmare fuel. Avoid it if possible. So. Much. Blood.

Maybe the silver lining here is showing the American public closeup just how awful guns are, might sway a few more minds to try and outlaw them.

This has also prevented the "random dude's gaping goatse" vids, so thank you twice

Thank you. I haven't seen the video yet I don't ever plan to.

We've been watching hundreds of thousands of people being shot, maimed and blown up for the last two year on the daily. We can handle this.

Yeah I’m confused why this is worse.

From an old grandma, thanks.

If you get squeamish at the sight of what winning looks like you're pathetic and are not going to make it

Thank you, I thought I already had that turned off.

Shouldn't this apply to the videos coming out of Gaza on a regular basis? Oh, that's right, no one gives a fuck about those. Disemboweled brown babies? No audience. White Nazi fuckwit? The entire world.

What are you talking about?

The video of Charlie Kirk being shot

Sincerely, thank you

Not upset in the least.

Too late for me. I really didn’t want to see that.

Of course there's footage. Of course people are sharing it online. Of course. 🤦😭

Yeah, I've seen footage, I stay noided.

Thanks. Too late for me. What pisses me off is that people slip it into their replies. I never wanted to see it. It makes me angry that someone is allowed to post such graphic content in a way that gives you no warning.

It is truly horrifying, but honestly, if more people saw it, perhaps we would see more of the gun nuts asking for common sense gun laws.

Just for reference… here’s that “when do we get to use the guns” answer at one of his events What didn’t get as much attention was the end of the video where the psycho follower presses again seeking permission to “use the guns”, at which point Kirk gives in and says when courts rule against them

The guns only seem to be an issue when they find their hands to some liberal who is filled his heart with rage you guys love to preach acceptance and everybody's the same but that only complies if people align with you your pieces of shits with bad ideas and violence in your hearts

Note… He was reportedly shot from the window of a building 200 yards away with a high-powered rifle Which is not a guarantee of who is pulling the trigger

True, but I think the victim, the way we're divided as a country, and the perps of the rash of recent shootings tend to make a person believe theres a significant chance their political views dont align. I usually never jump to any conclusions but it feels almost like a foregone conclusion anymore.

Just a year ago, There’s people out there who want an American Holocaust and are getting nervous about it not starting before the Midterms… We’ll see what the investigation reveals www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Im confused?? If you mean the liberal politicians and university administrators that turned a blind eye and failed to take any real actions or even a stance against it, then im not confused anymore.

“It”…. What it are you referring to? You seem to have jumped off track

I think we both have you're talking about a tried but failed race war last year confused me and I honestly didn't know where to go from there im sure I just misunderstood

That’s the fun part about Far-Right wishes for race wars… they keep trying to make them happen after each failed attempt

And I would add here... the claim in this video, is that these eager little "lets use the guns and kill these people" douchebags are living under "Tyranny" What was the "Tyranny"? - Trump lost the election - COVID Vaccine Mandates that made them wear a mask in public - Twitter moderation existing

Aren't enough instances of white nationalists resorting to violence already for the "fascist regime" that exists in their heads to have done something already??

Psychological warfare my ass

We don’t have to provoke anything. We can just sit back and let y’all kill each other. And here we are.

I did want to watch it. No regrets.

Thank you

genuinely thank you for posting this

The thing that drives me mildly crazy is if I'm viewing this in a browser rather than an app, every time I enable external media (which I have to do whenever my cache clears), I then have to subsequently disable autoplay.

I'm not sure why they think that me being OK watching a video means that all videos should autoplay.

Saw it. Wished I didn't. Thanks for the settings reminder.

man I hate morbid curiosity

I’m good with it

This is good advice for general Internet browsing anyway, IMO, but I'm an elder millennial and won't these darn kids just get off my lawn?

Turn off Trending Videos too to cover all the bases.

Done, but unfortunately after I saw the video.

Of all the death videos on the internet, that’s definitely the one I’m the least not okay with seeing.

Done. Thank you.

What sane person would have autoplay on in 2025?

Too late unfortunately, it's awful but this is definitely another step in "you reap what you sow"

just letting everyone know so you don't have to watch the video but that man is dead dead

Yeah, I agree. The pose, plus the amount... if he survives, that is at minimum massive brain damage, but I see no path to survival.

I just saw it too. He looks like he got hit the neck or the left side of the chest. I think he won't make it.

HOPEFULLY!

Right in the carotid artery. I'm actually shocked they haven't announced he's dead yet.

It was the carotid.

Michael Fanone told Don Lemon he saw the footage. He said it looked like the bullet(s) hit his carotid artery.

Saw the closeup against my will on Reddit. Right in the neck, instantly goes limp, fountain of red. It’s bad bad. Not survivable

Life is too fragile, guns are truly a mistake, at least medieval people used to puke their guts out whenever they killed someone.

How awful.

Maybe survivable. You'd be shocked at what people survive sometimes. No news of him being dead-dead, no news of that not being the case. Odds are...not good, I agree.

Last headline I saw was critical condition at hospital, not dead. Blood loss but with less organ damage might be survivable.

the way his hand reaches for the wound and then immediately falls limp tells me if he does survive, it's going to be a drastically altered life. like. that's a clear sign that the connection went one way, but did not make it back.

Utah speaker confirms he is dead

Could totally have stroke like symptoms depending on how long it took to get him stabilized. Just a very scary and large gap with modern medicine between dead-dead and "alive". And a medical system that has too much experience treating shootings.

I wonder if he survives if his stance on gun control will change. This event remains me of Reagan's assassination attempt and how one of his political friends started gun control advocacy after suffering from gun violence.

I saw it too and definitely didn’t look good for him but Minnesota State Senator Hoffman and his wife survived being shot a combined 17 times and pulled through.

we are all talking about chuck here correct

thanks

Anyone tempted by the “we need to stand witness to what’s happening” yeah you do not. Ask any internet mod from the past 20 years. You cannot unsee what you see. Read the text description, then stop. If I could time-travel, that is what I’d tell my younger self. I still have random flashbacks.

Yeah I’ve always boggled at this notion in the past. Like no, sorry, my mind is QUITE capable of visualizing all manner of horrors without the need to see the reality. Doesn’t stop me from doing good in the world to rectify the horrors if I stop short of witnessing them directly.

People don’t get that evolution hasn’t moved at the same speed as tech. When your brain sees murder or gore on a screen, it HARD-CODES it as a deadly threat that happened 2 feet away from you! It doesn’t know about video! It also encodes audio, which has been one of my main triggers.

Audio is the worst. I get far fewer visual flashbacks.

Thank you. ❤️

Yeah. It's pretty horrific.

Be careful on X, the feed is all the close up and it's horrendoous

did he get shot in the head? i havnt seen anything

his neck/throat area

Never going back to that cesspool.

I literally came to this thread to say Twitter is a cesspool. I abandoned it and am so happy I did so.

I stuck around longer than I should have, don't miss it a bit. Same with Facebook, which I abandoned after the 2016 election. They're not making another dime off of this gal.

Facebook has been harder for me to quit. I was one of the first million people to join back in 2004 in college. My daily FB memories are full of comments from now-deceased family members and pictures of my kids. But I don’t use it as much as I used to.

I understand. It's been painful to lose touch with family and old friends/acquaintances, but a few had turned virulently maga and it just made me melancholy. Glad I wasn't there to see how they reacted to the pandemic.

Just saw because I was morbidly curious. I'm speechless.

It’s horrible. No one deserves that.

He absolutely deserved it

He was fine with it happening www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

Are you talking about close ups of the shooting and his wound? What is the matter with those people?

If you go onto X you are braver than I am. I haven’t posted there since after the election. I like my blood pressure normal and I don’t need the hatred they are spewing over there.

thank you, i have to visit there for work sometimes and i will absolutely be putting anything related to that off until at least tomorrow

Two years of Israel's genocide has muted me.

Thanks for the reminder.

Compared to the constant fox news coverage of police murder victims? It was nothing. A simple gunshot wound to the jugular, near instant death. More tame than I initially thought.

Yeah thank you for the warning too your giving, it is REAL bad. Don't go looking people, you will regret it.

It's easy to think you're desensitised to violence until you see it happen to an actual human being.

don't worry, no human beings got hurt!

Not keen on weaponising dehumanisation against people I don't like.

haha okay settle down mother theresa

She was a monster. We cannot still keep saying she was saintly when the truth is *so* widely out there.

sure sure I hear you haha

Exactly.

What hammered this home for me was seeing footage of Robert Budd Dwyer killing himself on live TV. I thought "I've played enough violent games and watched enough violent movies, I'll be fine." I can still picture it and it's still deeply unsettling.

A couple of minutes ago I accidentally saw the up close video of this event.

It shakes you to your core. I watched my dad pass away, not from violence but it replays in my head when I think of him. I choose grace today.

Thanks - I have that turned on everywhere to prevent obnoxious ads autoplaying.

I saw it and regret it.

Accidentally saw the close up video, did not need to see that.

Thank you. Made the change.

I didn't know you could turn off gifs. Thanks.

Great day to always of had it off

One of the first things I did when I joined here, and I did it when I was on Twitter too.

Thank you. I've been slow-scrolling for fear of happening upon it.

Seriously, thanks for posting that. I have no desire to see someone getting shot in the neck.

Are you kidding me? I'm trying to find and save it!

To the compassionate hearts, I speak to you in the name of humanity. We need your contribution, participation and donations for the sake of the children. Please help me. www.chuffed.org/project/1365...

Thank you, I kinda forgot that I had that setting turned on. Luckily I haven't seen the video

I have seen too many children's limbs with no owner, too many parents screaming at the heavens with dead and mutilated children in their arms, videos with [audio of children screaming removed], to call myself mentally healthy. But yeah, I did turn it off.

honestly, i wasn't phased a single bit. i've seen a lot worse.

I’ve done it anyways to lower my mental tempo on BD but this if any other day is a day to do it.

Thank you for warning others because that footage is incredibly graphic and difficult to watch.

Too late. Truly grisly. Horrific. It’s the guns.

Gritted my teeth and watched it and he got SHOT shot. If you can't handle blood, DO NOT WATCH. I don't like the guy, but this was still awful to see.

thank you all for the warnings, and this post @bencollins.bsky.social 🫂 to all

No joke. I wish I hadn’t seen it.

didn't bother me much but it SHOULD and it's ROUGH

Welp. Good bye bluesky for 42 hours

What has happened?

Someone shot Charlie Kirk

Thank you for answering and not being cryptic or sarcastic.

Yes, this. Thank you @antifatemptress.bsky.social, and thank you in advance to everyone who just posts normal for the rest of the week. This is awful.

I just saw. Oh my God. Thank you to Ben for warning everyone.

I kinda do tho

yeeaaaaah

Too late. I already saw brains. Please, spare yourselves.

Yeah. Wish I had that setting on for the video of the st*bb*ng yesterday too.

What stabbing?

Nevermind. I think I know what you are talking about.

unpopular take: we need to start showing it. show the victims. emmett tills mother made history by shoving it in our faces with an open casket funeral. If we had all been forced to see the children in every shooting things might actually have changed by now. People need to made to feel it personally

Didn’t know there was video of the shooting itself. I’ve only seen wide shots of people running. But autoplay is never a good idea.

people posting the video eh... yeah thats fucked. Cant really imagine why people would do that here. I've already done it but i'm blocking whoever does post it. the world doesn't need shit like that.

*Fuck* that was a horrible visual.

Thanks Ben.

Thank you. Found this before i read there was a video and before i saw it. Appreciated.

Lmao speak for yourself.

I am going to heed your warning

Same. My heart cant take it, no matter who it is.

I’ve watched a lot of bad videos in my day and few have made me physically ill like this one. Even knowing what happened before I watched. Ugh.

I'm a veteran. Never saw combat, but stuff gets circulated. I've never seen something like this and hope to never again.

not following our handiwork in Gaza then I take it

Done. Thx!!

No, it’s not

Best to always have it on imo. its like autoplaying ads on websites.

I disagree. People should witness the power of these weapons. If the photos from Sandy Hook had been published, we'd be living in a different world right now. I've seen the photos from Uvalde, and you can't hold the same position on AR-15s after seeing them.

Not gonna ask why, but thank you, done and done.

I saw the video. All I could think about were the 5/6 year olds who were killed by a AR-type weapon at Sandy Hook. What their little bodies went through. Thinking about our gop congress who did nothing. I also thought about TODAY'S school shooting. I thought about Kirk's words in defense of guns.

Me too. They said they had to identify some of those poor kids from their clothes:(

Omg.

The Uvalde shooting was worse. Somehow.

It's so gut wrenching.

How anyone - anyone - finds it acceptable is beyond me. I don’t understand greed but I really don’t understand greed as a motivation for accepting Sandy Hook and Uvalde and all the others.

Me neither. I always think to myself...are there really THIS MANY sociopaths in our congress? Because I don't get how many people can turn the other cheek for a check.

While you're at it, unfollow or block anyone who would share it.

Don’t go on twitterX either, the close up video can not be unseen.

One of a million reasons to avoid that hellhole.

I made the mistake of seeing it. I was not ready. Truly awful.

Immediately did what you suggested. I don't need any more awful in my head.

All I'll say is I'd use the word "gallon" to describe it. It is not pretty.

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = on

No thank you

Good reminder, it should be the default anyway.

So is something wrong with me mentally if I didn't react as viscerally as everyone else seems to be reacting to the footage? Granted I didn't watch footage with blood and stuff just the initial shot.

Nah, I've watched it like 3 times now from different angles. Some people are just more sensitive to that sort of thing. My excuse is I've seen worse in person.

Really? The video is not graphic at all

Charlie Kirk reddit page has closeup

The angle where his artery explodes and looks likely he would have bled out before the ambulance arrived.

Yes saw it now

There's a second angle that came out that is definitely very, very graphic

Ahhhhhh, now I know what we're talking about. Apparently it hasn't shown up on my feed yet

Yeah the close up leaves zero doubt.

Link? Can't find it

Maybe ask this in any thread except for the "you really don't want to watch this, trust us who have seen it" thread

Ohhhh ok

There is another video clip, it looks like they hit one of the big veins in the neck and blood just fucking pours out.

Yes... Its horrible and leaves no doubt to his fate...

I hope that video gets removed everywhere. No one needs to see a video of their family member being killed.

Huh mine was on but wasn't working

who did it?

Waiting to see - it’s an older white guy, they got him right away. No word on motive or political affiliation yet.

With that kind of marksmanship not going to be surprising if it’s a vet but anyway don’t watch the video. You will not be doing your brain any good by watching it.

It was a skilled shot. But yeah, my mental health is already bad after the release of that Pedo book.

Thing is it’s traumatic to see that kind of thing in the first place and that’s x 2000% when the victim is a POS. Your brain does not need that kind of input.

Really, thanks for your sanity I appreciate it.

My thought too is it’s a skilled shot, and only one like a sniper, they say it was from another building even. It’s not survivable.

They will cover it up if it’s a MAGA.

It’s already set that way for me but man did everything really want to show me videos for the last half hour

Thank you for this!

Wish I saw this before I saw that

That guy spews hate daily, I do not care

I will not mourn him, but not everyone needs to see the video it is pretty horrendous

I mean the thing is we unfortunately live in a country where some people are shot. I don't know almost any of them (thank God). If this person wasn't famous we would never have heard about this. A famous awesome person I would be sad since they touched my life positively. But not all famous do.

That said I don't watch gruesome (real life) videos. I don't seek that out, out of self respect. Really don't watch many fictional either.

not the only thing he's spewing now

ok, nor do i. i also don't want to be flashed with a body part getting pierced. that's the concern.

Ok thats fine noones saying stop hating him or that he wasnt evil but extreme gore is extremely triggering to basically everyone. (To varying degrees) Dont need the videos to acknowledge how awful he was.

People who have suffered violence, even from right wing bigots, do not seek out snuff videos because they relieve their own trauma. I don't know why that is hard to grasp for some.

Yeah. For about a decade after my dads murder I had extreme PTSD with certain violent scenes. Even blood spatter could send me into a panic attack. The who is irrelevant. It still brings the trauma up.

I have seen enough of iolent death to last me a lifetime. I'm good. I have a hard time with thunderstorms this past year since Helene. Imagine being a shooting victim who spent years physically and mentally rehabbing and seeing this autoplayed on your social media.

Yeah exactly. Theres no NEED to watch it. It doesnt change the situation and everyone can still go "rest in hell" without watching it.

doesn't mean its fun watching a person die

Seeing someone die brutally, even someone you hate, is not necessarily good for the human psyche. This suggestion wasn't made out of concern for Kirk, it was made out of concern for everyone else.

I hate that man deeply but I clutched my neck seeing the second angle and want to throw up. Let people take care of themselves

Thiiiiisssssss, it could be the worst human being on the planet and I'd wince and feel awful for the rest of my life recalling the visual of that, even if another part of me is relieved for the asshole to be put out of our misery.

Yeah, I accidentally saw a blurry screenshot and that was enough. 🥺

Good advice. Too late for me, but good advice. Fucking horrible.

I see a lot of people talking about the video, but I can't find the video. Where can I see it?

You can definitely find it, but here's a play by play instead.

Jesus Christ.

On X. I'm jaded. Like it's gory, but my level of empathy towards him is on par with watching Ruzzies get slotted in UKR trenches or ISIS fighters getting wasted in Syria. That is to say, none. If you've never seen what a rifle round does to a human being, however, it might be shocking for you.

I made the mistake of watching and can only say : I cannot let these people turn me into a monster.

Too late for me :(

I’ve seen worse. Just go watch women and children being separated by masked goons while their husbands are being beaten in our American streets. Then you’ll have no issue watching him get shot. Sua Sponte!

my mental health has been shattered by the hundreds of pictures and videos of mangled palestinian children whose murder charlie is an outspoken advocate of no catharsis was had though, not worth it

Thanks. Done

😥

Every day.

Yeah, too late. But ehh, let's just say they should bring in the dancing coffin carrier guys. He's toast.

BBC tastefully pauses footage but I’m sure lots of other gutter media have no good sense these days.

I laughed.

Very very bad, horrendously bad

Yeah, unfortunately the video autoplayed before I even knew what I was looking at.

His neck just did that

I have vivid technicolor memories of enough horrific events not to want to see another one I can’t forget.

I am very glad I already had that setup because I do not do well with actual violence :(

Yeah. Regardless of what you think about the event, you go on a site like D and it just…keeps…repeating