At the launch of his “Prove Me Wrong” national tour, he was inviting members of the 3,000-strong crowd to try to shift his faith in the core positions that animate President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
“Too many”, Kirk answered, eliciting loud cheers from the crowd.
Founder and president of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk was shot dead yesterday (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Kirk sought to clarify the question: “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he asked. At that very moment, a single shot rang out across the crowd, delivering a wound to Kirk’s neck that would prove fatal.
The canopy under which he was sitting bore the slogan “American Comeback”. He died wearing a white T-shirt with the word “FREEDOM” emblazoned in block capitals.
Trump after an attempted assassination on 13 July 2024 (Photo: Rebecca Droke / AFP via Getty Images)
Trump took to social media, first to call for prayers for Kirk, then – less than two hours later – to announce his death. The President knows that he may not have won the keys to the Oval Office in 2016, much less returned to the seat of American power last January, had it not been for Kirk’s “Turning Point USA” movement and its mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of young voters.
Worse than that, he can also be accused of orchestrating and fuelling a febrile political atmosphere across the country in which political discourse is now pockmarked by the President’s own violent language, his loathing of his opponents, and – in January 2021 – his support for a mob that engaged in a deadly rampage on Capitol Hill.
Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in June (Photo: Steven Garcia/Getty Images)
Today, it’s conservative right-wingers who are in mourning, but just three months ago it was Democrats who were grieving after a lone gunman assassinated a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and injured another lawmaker and his wife. Authorities said the suspect had a hit list of elected officials, all of whom were Democrats.
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In April, a man also broke into the official residence of Pennsylvania’s Governor, Democrat Josh Shapiro. He set fire to the building, forcing the Governor and his family to evacuate the compound at around 2am.
Kirk himself saw gun violence as a necessary evil, which underpinned his determination to protect gun rights in America.
Today, the Maga movement is in mourning because of that tragic bargain.
America awaits news of the motives for Kirk’s assassination, and the capture of the person responsible. But politicians and activists can only wonder who among them might be next.
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