Charlie Kirk shot.

I enjoyed his interactions with people of other opinions. He was very gracious and respectful. I found him to be a breath of fresh air in comparison to the normal right wing bluster and blather. Mocking and belittling was far beneath him. While I have no way to prove it, I highly doubt that the words "black tranny" ever came out of his mouth.
Yes Kirk was usually reserved and respectful in his discourse…yet t they still murdered him. Which goes to the point that hatred and vitriol run deep.
 
I actually only recently found out he was an evangelical Christian when he had a friendly religious debate with Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire. Michael Knowles is a Catholic.

J. D. Vance tweeted something similar. They became friends some time ago, and he particularly remarked how much he enjoyed their religious discussions/debates (Vance also being Catholic).
 
J. D. Vance tweeted something similar. They became friends some time ago, and he particularly remarked how much he enjoyed their religious discussions/debates (Vance also being Catholic).
One of my favorite former coworker is Catholic and the spiritual conversations we had were a wonderful experience. Take the doctrinal debates out and what was left was a pair of guys working out their salvation.
 
On both sides.

Maybe, but one side in particular is disproportionately over-represented when it comes to political violence and assassination.

Maybe John Wilkes Booth could be considerled right-wing, being pro-slavery and pro-Confederacy. The (would-be) assassins of Garfield and Reagan were loons, and perhaps acting for personal rather than political reasons. And I think we still don't know enough about Trump's shooter to ascribe a specific political motive. Other than that, from McKinley on up, I can only think of progressives and political radicals.
 
One of my favorite former coworker is Catholic and the spiritual conversations we had were a wonderful experience. Take the doctrinal debates out and what was left was a pair of guys working out their salvation.

I come from a fairly Catholic hometown, and had similar discussions around the break table at my summer jobs. May be the main reason I'm more ecumenical in practice than my theological convictions might suggest.
 
Maybe, but one side in particular is disproportionately over-represented when it comes to political violence and assassination.

Maybe John Wilkes Booth could be considerled right-wing, being pro-slavery and pro-Confederacy. The (would-be) assassins of Garfield and Reagan were loons, and perhaps acting for personal rather than political reasons. And I think we still don't know enough about Trump's shooter to ascribe a specific political motive. Other than that, from McKinley on up, I can only think of progressives and political radicals.
None of which excuses the "hate and vitriol" that I was addressing.

BTW the right has her fair share of political radicals.
 
None of which excuses the "hate and vitriol" that I was addressing.

BTW the right has her fair share of political radicals.
Your moral equivalency argument aside, the left, by their “Trump is a racist and fascist and will end Democracy and have no further elections etc” arguments give loons a reason to be extreme.

According to a Rutgers University poll:
Murder Justification: 31% and 38% of respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.

These effects were driven by respondents that self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.

Property Destruction: Nearly 40% of respondents stated it is at least somewhat acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest.
 
I highly doubt that the words "black tranny" ever came out of his mouth.
"A surgically and chemically emasculated, feminized brute with a high concentration of epidermal melanin." Feel better?
 
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I didn't think I live under a rock, but apparently I do. Other than hearing his name occasionally prior to the assassination, I don't think I've ever watched any of his videos or read anything he's written. I could not have told you if he was a liberal or conservative - that's how little I knew about him. Of course, the current political landscape has zero appeal to me.

Based on what I've seen on social media, this has succeeded in its intended goal: further dividing and polarizing this country.
 
 
BTW the right has her fair share of political radicals.

I dare say I know as much about right-wing political radicals as anyone else on this forum. Or used to, anyway, years ago.

But being a right-wing political radical doesn't seem to translate all that often into right-wing violence directed against left-wing politicians. The bullets fly, by and large, in one direction.

Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of exceptions, but they're also so obvious that they represent the proverbial exceptions that prove the rule.
 
“Conservative leader Charlie Kirk previously warned that "assassination culture" was spreading on the left and that this amounted to a "ticking time bomb" before he was shot and killed at a campus event Wednesday in Utah.”

 

Good. Hope it's for real this time and not another false lead. At least they had a pretty good video trail this time.

Everyone's talking about the competence of the FBi right now. Frankly, catching a suspect who's fled the scene, in less than 48 hours, probably isn't half bad.
 
According to Cox, the spent casing read, “Notices bulges OWO what’s this?” An unfired bullet casing had a message reading, “Hey fascist! Catch!” and included an “up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol and three down arrow symbols,” Cox said. A third unfired casing contained a portion of the lyrics to “Bella Ciao,” a song often associated with the Italian resistance during Nazi occupation in WWII. And the last casing Cox described was inscribed with language reading, “If you read this you are gay lmao.”--https://fox4kc.com/news/bullet-casi...re-inscribed-with-messages-what-did-they-say/
 
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