While you can make this comment in an objective way, your vitriolic expression of this is not a good way to approach the situation.
For a simple first question, do you know of Iryna Zarutska? Killed with a pocket knife. Do we need to ban pocket knives too? Or do we need to have foundational discussion about how we quell violence and deter violent behavior in this country?
It’s not a given to presume that gun bans are the answer. And expressing that opinion is not something that should get you shot.
I'm not making a statement about what should be done with guns.
I'm making a statement about a person experiencing the consequences of their stated position.
If he'd staked out a position on the necessity of compelling everyone to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation to achieve maximum satisfaction and then subsequently died from it in a suffocation incident himself, then it wouldn't really be much of a tragedy compared to a bunch of children being randomly strangled to death in their classrooms.
Insofar as I can tell it looks like Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved and in a way that aligned existentially with his zealously professed ideology.
sebmellen|5 months ago
For a simple first question, do you know of Iryna Zarutska? Killed with a pocket knife. Do we need to ban pocket knives too? Or do we need to have foundational discussion about how we quell violence and deter violent behavior in this country?
It’s not a given to presume that gun bans are the answer. And expressing that opinion is not something that should get you shot.
im_down_w_otp|5 months ago
I'm making a statement about a person experiencing the consequences of their stated position.
If he'd staked out a position on the necessity of compelling everyone to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation to achieve maximum satisfaction and then subsequently died from it in a suffocation incident himself, then it wouldn't really be much of a tragedy compared to a bunch of children being randomly strangled to death in their classrooms.
Insofar as I can tell it looks like Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved and in a way that aligned existentially with his zealously professed ideology.
Did he not?