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[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 601 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 234 points 5 months ago
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago
[-] sepi@piefed.social 16 points 5 months ago

But he doesn't know that. Don't ruin it for him.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago
[-] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 126 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ironically, this assassin literally justified the 2nd Amendment. You use it to off tyrants. And boy they sure did.

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 57 points 5 months ago

To quote Jesus: live by the sword, die by the sword.

That’s all that comes to mind.

These people who have been pushing for getting rid of trans people and throwing immigrants in concentration camps, and generally just calling for (and profiting from) hate need to realize doing so only has one consequence: more hate. Hate boils into violence.

People can pray for him, but he did not live a life according to Jesus’ teaching when he preached hate.

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In 2024, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:13 ("If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them") as "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".[105]

Kirk argued against gender affirming care for transgender people, saying, "We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue", according to Media Matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk

Just in case there was ambiguity for anyone, he suggested we kill homosexuals, and ban life-saving healthcare for trans people.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

He was literally debating trans people as mass shooters when shot according to the reports I read.

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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 53 points 5 months ago

The important takeaway here is, we know he'd be happy to have been shot. I think that victim statement should be taken into account in the eventual trial.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

It's just... too poetic. I wish we weren't here as a country, and that's so heartbreaking, but we've been heading here for years if not decades.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

He became the sacrifice he hungered for, good riddance

[-] Xella@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

LMAO what a quote.

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