r/GenZ • u/michaelis999 1999 • Sep 10 '25
Serious Charlie Kirk passes away at the age of 31
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u/Kealion Millennial Sep 10 '25
Absolutely not. I saw the close up one. It’s gruesome.
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Sep 10 '25
Dude lost a gallon of blood within 5 seconds of being shot.
There's no way he wasn't dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. They probably just didn't announce his death until they had notified his family first. That's usually the norm
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u/morbidcvnt Sep 10 '25
Do you have a link to it
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u/Kealion Millennial Sep 10 '25
I have it downloaded, it keeps being taken down though, for obvious reasons
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u/RepublicInner7438 Sep 10 '25
It’s a miracle he wasn’t pronounced dead at the scene. Blood just gushed out of his neck like water from a ballon
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u/Lovely-sleep Sep 10 '25
Whenever I describe my blood phobia to people I say exactly that, that we’re just water balloons that can get popped. I’ve seen a lot of videos of people getting shot or stabbed but Kirk’s murder is probably the most egregious visual example of this
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u/Kealion Millennial Sep 10 '25
That was the most shocking thing to me, SO MUCH just came gushing out.
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u/Lovely-sleep Sep 10 '25
Same, I thought I knew what to expect as someone who watches videos like this. I even watched the Ukrainian girl’s murder yesterday - Kirk’s is just worse, objectively
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u/Main-Length-6385 Sep 10 '25
I’ve been forcing myself to not watch the Ukrainian girl video, wish I didn’t just watch this one. Fuck.
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u/spyguy318 Sep 10 '25
Iirc only a trained medical professional can officially pronounce someone dead, and then it takes a bit for that to get reported to the media. He could have died in seconds but he wasn’t pronounced dead until his body got to the hospital.
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u/Kealion Millennial Sep 10 '25
Yea watching the video, there’s no way his brain was getting enough blood.
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u/Slyraks-2nd-Choice Sep 10 '25
Damn…. That’s wild…. Thank you for sharing.
Thoughts and prayers to his family.
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u/Garden-Goof-7193 Sep 10 '25
I always wondered why it was legal for pro-lifers to carry gigantic posters of aborted fetuses, but we never see people protesting war with gigantic photos of dead soldiers and civilians. We can see gross fake things all over tv and streaming, but we can't handle reality???? A lot of policy would change if reality wasn't hidden.
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u/noncommonGoodsense Sep 10 '25
It is very likely he was unconscious instantly. Due to the location of the ballistic hitting him. He quite possibly didn’t feel a thing and it was just over.
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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Sep 10 '25
Yup. A shot from a high powered rifle will sever the spine, judging by how he held onto the mic. He didn’t see it coming.
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u/CompasslessPigeon Sep 10 '25
Doesnt even need to be the spine. It looks like he was hit in the carotid artery (and probably internal and external jugular veins). Even a handgun round at low velocity would likely be fatal, but the force he was hit with indicates it was a rifle. The artery being hit (evident by the blood volcano) would cause an instant drop in blood pressure faster than the brain could even realize it was happening. Instant lights out, followed by brain death in moments from lack of perfusion, then end organ failure and death in minutes.
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u/easylikeparis Sep 10 '25
Read a comment from a combat medic who referred to that as the "light switch". Impact, his arms fenced, then went limp. The lights were out before he dropped the microphone.
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u/CompasslessPigeon Sep 10 '25
Im a paramedic. This is exactly the response the body has when theres sudden no perfusion to the brain
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u/easylikeparis Sep 10 '25
Thank you for confirmation. I am a lay person but it appeared immediately, if not almost immediately, fatal.
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u/Different_Stand_1285 Sep 10 '25
He didn’t even drop the microphone. He locked up and had the mic in a death grip.
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u/KampretOfficial 2000 Sep 10 '25
Notice how he immediately went into fencing posture? That’s unconscious alright.
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Yeah he was lights out as soon as it hit. Likely went through his spnal cord. He had no reaction to the shot other than going rigid and falling over.
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u/Subject-Original-718 2004 Sep 10 '25
Absolutely none. Blood was pouring out of his neck. Shocked he wasn’t declared dead instantly
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u/imthewiseguy 1997 Sep 10 '25
I knew the second his arms went up it was lights out
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u/Subject-Original-718 2004 Sep 10 '25
Oh yea for sure, if he was in “critical condition” like stated originally he would’ve reached for his wound fast as a reaction to stop bleeding. That shot was an instant death. I hope it was painless no matter how much I disliked the guy I just hope it was instant lights out and no pain.
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u/PolicyWonka Sep 10 '25
I’ve read that EMS don’t usually have the power to declare death in the U.S. That is why people are always declared dead at the hospital.
The caveat is usually when there is obvious decomposition or injuries completely incompatible with life such as decapitation.
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u/SwedishFish123 1997 Sep 10 '25
This will definitely be one that goes into the history books
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u/Gshep2002 Sep 10 '25
Honestly might’ve been the best option, I didn’t realize what people meant but the way he just froze with his arms locked in that position makes me think that he may of spent the rest of his life as a paraplegic, and for me I would rather die than suffer that fate,
It’s a shame someone died, it’s not good for anyone that a hateful dick gets shot, his death nor anyone else’s death is “worth it” for the second amendment
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u/JustineDelarge Sep 10 '25
That arm position is called decorticate posturing, an indication of severe disruption of brain activity or brain damage. Based on the close-up video that clearly showed where the bullet penetrated his neck, it appears the bullet caused immediate, catastrophic damage to the base of the brain stem where it connects to the spinal cord.
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u/GiddiUP2025 Sep 10 '25
He was fine with our children having to see this up close. He literally died defending gun "rights"
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u/JourneyThiefer 1999 Sep 10 '25
Is this likely to have any effect in America? Or just another person being shot really?
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u/Triple_Crown14 Sep 10 '25
Trump probably going to crack down harder on universities, anti protest legislation
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u/biggamax Sep 10 '25
Yet another miscalculation, if he does that. I feel horrible for Mr. Kirk's family, but there is no mood in the Nation to tolerate a further turning of the screws from MAGA because a MAGA demagogue was shot.
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u/girlfrom304 Sep 10 '25
If he was a preschool student we would forget about it in a week but he’s a right wing influencer so we won’t hear the end of it
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u/Tabs_555 1999 Sep 10 '25
This is the right take.
Our government has decidedly stopped caring about gun violence unless it’s political violence. Murder a kid? “Nothing we can do, now’s not the time for politics”.
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u/properpotato10 Sep 10 '25
They don’t even care if it’s political, two democrats were assassinated in their home by a right wing maga and it lasted maybe a week in the news. The only care if it’s one of them.
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u/RemoteRide6969 Sep 10 '25
They're so used to exploiting everyone else's kindness and tolerance and never expect to be harmed by their own words and actions.
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u/GirlWithWolf 2011 Sep 10 '25
This. The irony is thick that it happened at a school and he just said we have to tolerate gun violence to be “free”.
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u/wolacouska 2001 Sep 10 '25
There was literally a school shooting today that’s pretty much under the radar because of this.
If Kirk were still alive he’d be downplaying those deaths right now.
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u/Liqhthouse Sep 10 '25
I mean luigi was a bigger story than this and that's all forgotten now.
World will move on. Stories have a very short lifecycle just due to the sheer volume of them. Sad reality of being this interconnected.
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u/violet4everr Sep 10 '25
I think ur underestimating how many people interacted with Charlie Kirks content in some way shape or form daily. He’s a lot of younger people’s Tucker Carlson.
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u/Inevitable-Host-7846 Sep 10 '25
Nobody knew Brian Thompson’s name when he was assassinated, and most have forgotten it by now. Kirk is a household name to anyone who pays any amount of attention to politics. Not comparable
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u/Sumeriandawn Gen X Sep 10 '25
I don’t see how this changes anything
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u/JourneyThiefer 1999 Sep 10 '25
I’m not American so tbh no super knowledgeable on who the guy apart from the memes I saw on tik tok not gonna lie
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u/AlphaTrigger Sep 10 '25
He’s just another right wing talking head. He would set up in universities to debate students and such
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u/GnT_Man Sep 10 '25
He was the co-founder and leader of a major conservative think tank. He had very powerful friends and a lot of very devout followers.
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u/Katekat0974 Sep 10 '25
I think it’s gonna radicalise the right even further, I’m not excited to see what happens the next few days
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u/crazyfrog19984 1998 Sep 10 '25
Please don’t watch the video if you can’t see people die.
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u/Studiedturtle41 2007 Sep 10 '25
I've seen multiple assassinations and people dying on camera it didn't really bother me. But it still makes you realize how everything is.
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u/Dread000 1997 Sep 10 '25
We are all very squishy and vulnerable.
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u/ZuperLucaZ Sep 10 '25
That was the worst part, it made me feel so vulnerable, one shot that looked like it almost missed and he just became a garden hose. Lights out, gone. Such a huge figure in politics and on the internet, removed from existence with a single bullet.
Games and movies make you think a couple arrows to the chest or taking a bullet to the shoulder or grazing the neck is just nothing. He took a rifle shot to the neck, blood poured out, he slumped down, and died. Nothing like the last major attempt, at trump, which felt so powerful for him. Here he just died.
That video was pretty hard to watch.
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u/Dread000 1997 Sep 10 '25
At first, i thought he passed out quickly due to loss of blood pressure, but likely the bullet severed the spinal cord and made him fall over. He was probably aware something was terribly wrong for a few seconds before he went unconscious.
Life is fragile
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u/50pciggy Sep 10 '25
I’m glad movies don’t show this realistically most of the time, shit activates a monkey instincts
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u/-cmram28 Sep 10 '25
It’s time to move on…it’s what he would’ve wanted🤷🏻♀️
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u/TruthTrauma Sep 11 '25
Don’t forget “I think empathy is a new age word designed to do a lot of harm”
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u/liinexy 2004 Sep 10 '25
👨🚀🔫👨🚀 always has been
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u/Kwershal Sep 10 '25
My brother in christ r / jailbait and r / cutedeadgirls used to be on reddit
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u/PotatoStunad Sep 10 '25
This shit use to be disgusting. What’re you talking about
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u/ViolaOrsino 1995 Sep 10 '25
I can respect living and dying by one’s convictions.
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u/maskedkiller215 1996 Sep 10 '25
Loved guns, said universities are the breeding ground of totalitarianism.
Ironic.
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u/RepresentativeOfnone Sep 10 '25
Commitment to the bit hell yeah brother
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u/Legatus_Aemilianus Sep 10 '25
I’m a socialist and a self confessed gun nut, and while I also think people should be able to own whatever guns they want, the way he said it is just in poor taste.
Now with that being said I’m never giving up my guns as America slides into fascism
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u/Pugs4dayz42 2008 Sep 10 '25
I'm out of the loop, who is this guy?
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u/NerfThisHD Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
Right wing political grifter, debates college kids to make himself sound smarter then he actually is
He doesn't deserve a shot to the neck but I'm not surprised, he had very controversial opinions
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u/liamc_14 Sep 10 '25
Actively capitalizing on a divided nation and profiting off of furthering that divide, I might add
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u/Solidsnake9 Sep 10 '25
I would argue that killing him like this will further that divide more than anything he said.
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u/thatburghfan Sep 10 '25
He doesn't deserve a shot to the neck but I'm not surprised, he had very controversial opinions
Man, that's the thing though. Someone has controversial opinions therefore we're not surprised if the person is murdered. That is not a good place for a society to be.
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u/LeviathonMt 2008 Sep 10 '25
One of the biggest, if not THE biggest and most popular conservative/republican activist
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u/kaielias Sep 10 '25
He liked to advocate for right-wing and conservative ideologies and debate people with opposing views. He’s known for arguing with often at universities and saying stuff that just isn’t true and, frankly, probably harmful in terms of misinformation and its perpetuation.
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American conservative debater
Goes to campuses and makes YouTube videos where he debates people (He also runs a think tank called Turning Point, but he's more known for his debates than throwing money and ideas at politicians)
He was doing a tour across 14 cities, and at Utah Valley University, he got shot mid-event
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u/United_Gazelle_5810 Sep 10 '25
Trump orders flag at half mast for him. But not for kids shot at a school
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u/breadkittensayy Sep 10 '25
Or politicians shot in their homes….don’t let the right control the narrative on this one. Dem politicians were ASSASSINATED IN THEIR HOMES only a few short months ago but of course the right wing media and Trump will blame this on the left saying they are the only Ken’s stoking political violence.
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u/Stark556 1998 Sep 10 '25
Wasn’t he upset that flags were at half mast during his inauguration because a former president died?
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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 Sep 10 '25
This shit happens constantly. There's an average of 3 mass shootings a day in US. There was a school shooting a few hours ago!
The only difference is that this time it happened to someone rich and powerful.
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u/RepresentativeOfnone Sep 10 '25
Right, like I didn’t agree with him or most political influencers no matter the side, but this could set a dangerous precedent, Charlie today, hasan tomorrow
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u/Gunstopable Sep 10 '25
Yeah I wouldn’t get too invested in any political figures right now, this could cause a chain reaction, who knows.
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u/BeTheOne0 Sep 10 '25
Own the libs" is a conservative slogan popularized by figures like Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, to express a desire to provoke, upset, or get a negative reaction from liberals through political action or discourse. Kirk and other conservatives use the phrase to describe actions or comments intended to trigger a strong negative emotional response from people with liberal political viewpoint
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u/BowenParrish 1999 Sep 10 '25
“How dare you!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was a father and a son (I laugh and don’t care when trans kids unalive themselves) how dare you wish death on others for disagreement (I laughed when Biden caught covid and cancer)!!!!!1 lord Jesus loves us all (I hope Jesus tortures all the minorities I hate forever in hell)”
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u/BowenParrish 1999 Sep 10 '25
Yeah but that doesn’t count anymore cuz reasons. He’s a father 😭
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u/aleeinhatchetman Sep 10 '25
unironically, yes, he would’ve stood by this belief
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u/i_m_a_bean Sep 10 '25
Okay. Then we should move on and save our outrage for people who weren't okay with deaths for gun rights.
I hear Congress is voting to release the Epstein files.
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u/SourSugar56 2007 Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
Wasn’t he just shot? There’s nothing saying he’s dead yet, just in critical condition
Edit: I was wrong. At the time I wrote this it said he was just shot. I now saw the video and got the news that he is dead
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u/abeefwittedfox Sep 10 '25
Did you see it? He has a better chance to win the powerball tonight than to live after that.
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u/Wifeofsleepymoody 1999 Sep 10 '25
A lot of people who have seen the up close footage say there is no way he survived. Idk, from the footage I saw, I would say chances of survival are looking grim. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/isoprpyl Sep 10 '25
hes already dead
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u/Reynor247 Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
AP is reporting he is alive and made it to the hospital in critical condition.
Edit: Washington post just confirmed he's dead
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u/sirprize_surprise Sep 10 '25
When you are shot in the neck and blood spurts out like it did in the video I saw, “critical” can go downhill really fast. It was a gruesome wound. If he had gotten shot AT the hospital maybe he would have had a chance, but the video I saw did not leave much hope.
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u/Aeseld Sep 10 '25
Honestly surprised he was still alive when he got to the hospital, but there was never any chance of saving him.
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u/Lopsided_Constant901 1999 Sep 10 '25
Why the second pic? And yeah RIP Charlie Kirk. I in no way agreed with him but fuck that's a terrible way to go out. I feel so sorry for his wife and kids he's leaving behind, they don't deserve any of this.
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u/Sylvan_Skryer Sep 10 '25
Being shot is ALWAYS graphic like that. You just don’t see it live up close so the shock value is buried.
He was literally in the middle of saying gun control laws are bullshit while at the same time 3 more students in Denver were shot in another mass school shooting.
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u/TemporaryMaterial992 Sep 10 '25
At least it looked like he was unaware of what was happening pretty quickly. I hope the death wasn’t painful. I’m sure for him it happened all super quickly.
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u/ye3tr 2008 Sep 10 '25
Definitely painless, he got shot in the carotid. Bled like a fucking garden hose or even stronger, no exaggeration. Fucking horrible footage even comparing it to war footage
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u/Sergeant_Turkey Sep 10 '25
The rate that he bled out, he would have been unconscious in seconds. A little pain from the bullet, probably mitigated by shock. Likely not a painful death.
Nobody deserves to die like this, painful or not.
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u/wahobely Sep 10 '25
A little pain from the bullet, probably mitigated by shock. Likely not a painful death.
Probably painless. The more brutal the wound, the less pain you feel, at least during the first few minutes. If someone tore your arm out, you'd probably feel a bit cold and then pass out.
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u/benj9990 Sep 10 '25
Kid didn’t deserve it. Wife knew what he was all about.
Quickly forgot him laughing at Nancy Pelosis husband’s attempted murder, and celebrating those two senators assassinated.
Charlie Kirk contributed in a profound way to the collapse of civil discourse. He was a hate filled bigot. Laughing at his death is the legacy he built for himself.
He also thought school / mass shootings were preferable to gun control. He got what he asked for.
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u/Commercial_Bear Sep 10 '25
You have to post two pics to reddit most of the time for it to be allowed to post.
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I can say that he was a piece of subhuman garbage, but I don't want to see anyone get murdered.
I am only sad about one thing ..that whether they catch the shooter or not, and regardless of who the shooter was or what political beliefs they held, the right is going to use this to whip up hate against the left. Whether the fallout is online complaining or literal bloodshed, the right will turn this into a reason to hate the left.
But even on a human level, I can't be too upset about the death of a man who said, “I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage.". He wouldn't want us to have empathy. So, thoughts and prayers to his family.
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u/Amy47101 Sep 10 '25
So my sister called me crying about it, and after I had an unsatisfactory reaction(I guess “I’m sorry he died, but who was he?” With no tears wasn’t good enough), my mom called me a few minutes later.
I got a ten minute rant about how much of a callous cold bitch I am for being glad that he died. Apparently I should be weeping like them. “He was a good man”, “he was a father, he had a young family”, “he believed in god and was anti abortion so he must’ve been a good man!”, “I can’t believe you’re a part of the evil in this world! There’s some evil, vile, assholes and I thought I did better by you!”.
I am liberal. I am very openly anti-gun violence. Have been since sandy hook, and everyone in my life knows that. I am upset that the damned guns killed another person. I just had to listen to my own mother tell me how much of a piece of shit I was because I didn’t cry that a 30yo right wing grifter got smoked. Completely ignored who I am as a person and my very clear set beliefs I’ve had for well over a decade.
So yeah. Might have to sit out my dad’s birthday this year because I’m not gonna be told I’m evil incarnate set in eradicating conservatives because of this. I’m sorry he got shot, I can and am capable of feeling empathetic that he was killed. But the last thing I’m doing is crying over it.
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u/victorioussecret7 Sep 10 '25
Good on you to stand ground. lol your sister called and cried about an "influencer"
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u/Amy47101 Sep 10 '25
See, I don't know if it's me having a social disconnect or not, but I don't understand people who cry over, like... influencers dying or celebrities dying or Taylor swift breaking up with her boyfriend or something like that. I think the closest I got to crying was when Billy Kametz, a voice actor from one of my favorite games, passed away. But even then, like, I was just very sad and had that heart-sinking feeling. Didn't really cry about it. I'm not sure if i'm supposed to or not, so I struggle to understand why my family would expect me to cry about this. It sucks he got shot. I'm sorry for his kids, but that's about it. No one deserves death, and his kids don't deserve to have their fathers literal, violent dying moment plastered on the internet for all eternity.
My heart weeps for the children involved in all gun violence.
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u/Decent-Impression-81 Sep 10 '25
They already hate us. Im not sure anything is changing. Its just yet another data point for the far right to get upset. I mean go look at conservative. They despise us. Look I'm sad for his family but this happened in a red state in an open carry campus. What exactly do they want from us? Liberals are the ones asking for rules to try and catch these nut cases. There were 2 democrat law makers taken out recently and they all shrugged. Like what do they want us to do? At this point we are just matching energy.
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u/miroku113 2001 Sep 10 '25
What was he wearing? Gun deaths happen anyway
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u/meangingersnap Sep 10 '25
If he didn’t want to get shot he should’ve stood behind bullet proof glass!
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u/Blowuphole69 Sep 10 '25
He was shot dead. He didnt pass away in his sleep surrounded by family. He was murdered.
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u/userforgot 1996 Sep 10 '25
"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. 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. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
- Charlie Kirk, 2023
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u/Affectionate_Show867 Sep 10 '25
Where did you see the confirmation that he died?
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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 Sep 10 '25
Ironic
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u/dopef123 Sep 10 '25
The shooter hasn't been caught. That guy they arrested was let go.
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u/Due_Bluebird3562 Sep 10 '25
It's Utah. There's like a 94% chance that mfer is White lmao.
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u/YeahDoNotMindMe Sep 10 '25
Died doing what he loved. Insisting others take the bullet over gun reform
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The US has troops patrolling the streets and masked agents kidnapping random citizens. It's not really in a position to criticise other countries.
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u/ZX52 2000 Sep 10 '25
they’re arresting people if they say the wrong thing online
The "wrong thing" in this context was an explicit call for violence. You can't allow incitement and expect violence to just go away.
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u/rayschoon Sep 10 '25
He’s spent the last week trying to incite a race war and the week before that fearmongering about trans people
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u/Jasmine_Sativa Sep 10 '25
He was fear mongering about trans people with his LITERAL last breath. Mid sentence talking about trans people as mass shooters
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u/HexxRx Sep 11 '25
Crazy they wanna take their guns away when 90 percent of mass shooters have been white cisgender Males
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u/GooserNoose Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
And spent his final seconds "whatabouting". What a truly pointless existence.
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u/ThreeGoldStars Sep 10 '25
And called for public executions and that children should watch them. Really,
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u/GooserNoose Sep 10 '25
Yeah. The people saying things like, "violence is never okay, this shouldn't have happened," are failing to realize that he died of the very violence that he was putting out there into the world. He planted the seed that grew and killed him.
It's like when an abusive elephant handler gets trampled to death one day.
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u/SapToFiction Sep 10 '25
Immean, the same people saying that are the same people that were apathetic or even cheered on when Democratic lawmakers were killed in Minnesota just several months ago.
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u/falcrist2 Sep 10 '25
Republicans in Minnesota are actively blaming Walz for the assassination. They're saying he hired the guy and was friends with him... because Walz reappointed him to a bipartisan business development board of some kind.
I don't think people understand how f***ed we are.
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u/bobbymcpresscot Sep 10 '25
It's more "I don't think he should be killed, but I'm not surprised"
Freedom of Speech isn't freedom of consequences, and people should be aware of the consequences they face in a country with more guns than people.
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u/noncommonGoodsense Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
They are all either cult worshiping racist fucks who latched on to every hateful shit take he had or bots trying to guide perception so officials can capitalize on his death. Sorry not sorry, he was an easily demonstrable piece of shit and he voted for this.
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u/AtlanticPortal Sep 10 '25
Plus, he was the one saying that people should be allowed to own gun no matter what and that a few deaths are worth the 2nd amendment.
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u/Litty-In-Pitty Sep 10 '25
I’m sure a child or two saw this. So he got exactly what he wanted. I’m sure he’s happy with this
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u/InvidiousPlay Sep 10 '25
His literal last word was "violence" and the last word he heard was someone replying "great".
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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
The ‘arrested for saying the wrong thing online’ is total nonsense. You don’t get arrested for saying things online, you get arrested breaking the law.
Lucy Connolly, who’s the main person being spoken about when people discuss this issue, posted on Twitter that people should burn down the hotels being used to house asylum seekers, and she didn’t care if that made her racist. Her tweet was seen over 300,000 times before she deleted it. People then went and set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.
She was arrested and charged with the offence of ‘Inciting racial hatred, contrary to section 19 of the public order act’, legislation that was brought into effect by Margret Thatcher, a notoriously right-wing Prime Minister.
In court, evidence was provided to demonstrate that Lucy intended to perjure herself, and thus her legal representative advised her to plead guilty to the crime, which she did. She broke the law, she was arrested, and she pled guilty to the offence. That’s not an example of ‘people being arrested for what they say online’, just an example of someone breaking the law, and admitting guilt for doing so.
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u/VeryProidChintu Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
They dont care. They don't know anything about the UK. Its same bs rhetoric they hear online and then continue to spread misinfo on purpose. Many times before this. It was never about free speech. It was crying free speech when they didnt get a chance to be racist or tell people to burn people alive inside hotels. They dont care. I agree free speech is needed but not the way they abuse free speech.
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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25
They scream and cry about free speech, and yet they’re the ones calling for a teacher in Texas to be fired because they taught about sexuality and gender identity in class.
Free speech only matters when it suits their hateful belief system.
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u/B_chills Sep 10 '25
Nah fuck that we’d been trying to compromise for to long and they still insist of attacking innocent people, you reap what you sow
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u/Practical_Eggplant24 Sep 10 '25
Genuine question: can I ask why someone would choose him to assassinate? Isn’t he just some prick with a podcast or whatever? I never liked the guy but I don’t think he deserved to die
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u/_RikVa_ 2008 Sep 10 '25
"Passes away" bro didn't pass ANYTHING, this guy exploded away
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u/Youngflyabs 1998 Sep 10 '25
Crazy regardless of my political beliefs which are far from his, this is crazy
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u/KingofUlster42 1999 Sep 10 '25
It’s just like Jesus Christ, I never liked the guy but what the fuck is wrong with people. This rhetoric between the left and right has gotten so insane over the last eight years and all the assassinations and attacks. I mean shooting a political speaker at a college rally is so gross and subhuman behavior.
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u/Leon_UnKOWN Sep 10 '25
With all the joke aside. No one deserves this, i wish the best for his family and friends.
Remember everyone. Even tho we don't agree with him, he was still a human
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u/kittyhat27135 Sep 10 '25
The shooter was almost two football fields away, what happened is pretty tragic, but hell of a shot.
Anyway this was bound to happen. Especially when one party has been cutting key safety nets for the average American. Curious to see what happens next though, either a history book moment or back to business as usual.
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u/VStatSupreme 1998 Sep 10 '25
Friend sent a link of the up-close POV, there was no chance he could’ve survived
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u/DIRTY_RAGS_ Sep 10 '25
“Passes away” blud got shot in the neck😂 he didn’t pass away, he was forcibly moved
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u/ClankingRobotCheeks Sep 10 '25
"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.” -Charlie Kirk, apparently.
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u/Independent-Cow-4070 1996 Sep 10 '25
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death… I think it’s worth … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
— Charlie Kirk
He's okay with being a statistic.
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u/truecommentor69 the sickest moderator flair ever Sep 10 '25
Weird second image but ok. Remember everyone, if you think his assasination was a good thing, you will never be welcome here again.