Pro-gun advocate Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while debating with an audience member about the relationship between trans people and mass shootings.
In his last conversation before his murder, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was debating mass shootings in the US. When confronted by an audience member on the campus of Utah Valley University, Kirk was preparing to answer a question about the involvement of trans people in mass shootings when he was shot in the neck.
The head of Turning Point USA, the leading conservative youth organization in the US—and a close figure to US President Donald Trump—was at the university in Utah on the first stop of his so-called "America Comeback Tour," a series of events he planned to hold at higher education institutions, debating in public spaces. Kirk was known for going to academic settings to present his ideas and being challenged.
As he lowered his microphone, the sound of a gunshot pierced the room, and the influencer fell after being hit in the neck. He was treated for gunshot wounds but succumbed to his injuries.
The influencer's death was mourned by politicians across the political spectrum in the US, who also condemned the violence. President Donald Trump called the case a "politically motivated" crime and blamed the "far left" for Kirk's death. Many expressed shock that the influencer was killed while responding to a question about gun violence.
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The United States, despite hundreds of murders every year (street shootings, school shootings), politicians killed, and assassination attempts on politicians (Trump's case, for example),
has a large gun lobby, a billion-dollar industry, but Americans have maintained a gun-owning mentality since the cowboy era.
No president has ever managed, nor wanted, to go against the gun lobby—not George W. Bush, not Obama, not Trump, even though he was the target of an assassination attempt and now his friend Charlie Kirk has been killed. Even if 150 or 200 children were shot dead in a school tomorrow, the Americans would never put an end to the gun lobby. It's ironic, after all.
As for the shooter, the FBI released images of the suspect, and they're offering a $100,000 reward.
The rifle shot, from that distance, hitting Kirk in the neck, who was under a tent, had to be the work of a professional.
I know there are American gun fanatics, and they hold training sessions, saying this guy must be from the far left. But that shot looked like it was fired by a professional, someone hired, with military experience. In the FBI images, we see the suspect who appears to be young. And he already had such skill as a shooter?
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