“It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment"
-Charlie Kirk
Thoughts and prayers to his family.
The argument in favor of gun control is that the broad availability of guns increases the death toll in moments of slipping impulse control. For example when suicidal teenagers snap or family disputes escalate.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, was a deliberate, cold-blooded, premeditated murder; most definitely out of political reasons. A person callous and motivated enough to pull off such a heinous act would have found other means if guns had genuinely been unavailable. And even that is unrealistic since he/she/zhe would have just used an illegal gun anyway. The 2nd amendment had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk's murder and trying to spin this into a "gotcha" is pathetic.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 11 2025 05:36am