Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday throughout an occasion at Utah Valley College.
Reactions to the taking pictures poured in from leaders throughout the nation, even earlier than President Donald Trump confirmed the Turning Level USA co-founder’s loss of life.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” he wrote on social media. “He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
“They just shot Charlie Kirk,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. “I’m praying that he survives. And I’m praying that this country rises up and ends this.”
Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna blamed individuals who referred to as MAGA politicians like herself “fascists” for the taking pictures.
“You were too busy doping up kids, cutting off their genitals, inciting racial violence by supporting orgs that exploit minorities, protecting criminals, and stirring hate,” she wrote on X. “Your words caused this. Your hate caused this.”
Billionaire Elon Musk additionally piled on.
“The Left is the party of murder,” he posted on X.
Proper-wing activist Laura Loomer added to the infected rhetoric, saying that “every single Leftist organization” ought to be shut down and prosecuted.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote, “Political violence has no place in this country. We must condemn this horrifying attack. My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.”
Vice President JD Vance posted an image of himself together with Kirk and Donald Trump Jr., writing “Dear God, protect Charlie in his darkest hour.”
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker informed reporters he felt that political violence “has ramped up,” together with charged rhetoric from Republican leaders like Trump.
“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy,” wrote former Presidenr Barack Obama. “Michelle and I can be praying for Charlie’s household tonight, particularly his spouse Erika and their two younger youngsters.
Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz wrote, “Praying for Charlie Kirk with all I’ve.“
Allison Hemingway-Witty cries after Charlie Kirk was shot throughout Turning Level USA’s go to to Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10.
“The scourge of gun violence and political violence must end,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated. “The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos and it must stop. We cannot go down this road. There is no place for it in America and we wish for his recovery.”
Gabrielle Giffords, the previous Arizona lawmaker who survived a 2011 mass taking pictures whereas assembly with constituents, stated she was “horrified” to listen to concerning the taking pictures.
”Democratic societies will all the time have political disagreements, however we must not ever permit America to turn into a rustic that confronts these disagreements with violence,” Giffords wrote.
In 2023, Kirk stated that gun deaths are a worthwhile worth for gun possession.
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense,” he informed the gang at one other TPUSA occasion. “It’s drivel. But I am — I think it’s worth it. 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
