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[–] 95 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Great foreshadowing too.

Earlier this year, Utah passed House Bill 128 allowing people to conceal carry firearms on university campuses. One of the campuses where conceal carry was now permitted is, of course, Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was visiting today. He was sitting under a tent with the slogan "Prove Me Wrong".

Immediately before the shooting, he was taking questions from the audience:

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience member asked. Kirk responded, “Too many.”

The questioner followed up: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked.

Then a single shot rang out.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-valley-university-event-spokesperson-says

It's unfortunate that he's ineligible for the Darwin Award because he leaves behind 2 very young children and a culture warrior wife, because otherwise he'd be a great nominee for the 2025 Darwin Awards. Normally to get a Darwin Award someone has to directly kill themselves. But, I think in this case we could have make an exception for someone who was a cheerleader for gun rights and was sitting directly under a banner saying "Prove Me Wrong" when he was killed with a gun.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    honestly deserves a whole new award category a la Herman Cain Award

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Do we have a Hermann Cain awards community here

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago

    We don't, but I think the old community on Reddit kind of died out with the vaccines becoming wildly available. I will admit, that was the highlight of many of my days during peak COVID. It was fucked up, but therapeutic in some weird way.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    This was apparently done by a sniper, so not really a concealed carry thing.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Surely the sniper was stopped by all the people conceal carrying though? I'm told that lots of guns makes everything ever so much safer.

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