Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

Please note that NSFW/NSFL videos must be labeled as such or they will be deleted

Edit: also keep in mind that initial information in these situations can often be inaccurate. Trusted outlets have conflicting reports about whether a suspect has been detained.

Edit 2: the campus has officially stated they release the initial subject. Donald Trump has stated Charlie Kirk is dead.

"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, 2023

Finally a good guy with a gun

I get the attempt at dark humor but honestly, damn, for me, that's a no.
- This is just my perspective, and I never wish harm or suffering on another living being, but if what/who you are and advocate for causes these things and you're too stupid or bribed to see it and continue being you... Then, for the greater good, good riddance
- Any politician that completely supports Trump is fair game at this point. Things will not return to normal by talking. If you dont wanna live in a dictatorship wake the fuck up. If you live in the US (i luckily dont) then learn how to use a gun, because its gonna get much much worse than the way it is right now.
- I just have to ask, is it because another human being was shot or were you one of the people celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden?
- Humor?

Trump ally Charlie Kirk suggests children should watch public executions

He ended up being the one being executed publicly

Reminder that this is Kirk's stance on guns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc9l6pjxtI

Unfettered 2A is worth the gun deaths according to Charlie Idiot here.

ETA: holy shit, saw a clip and damn, that dude is dead.

Statistics are always nice and vague until you become one of them.
- One death is a tragedy, Charlie Kirk's is a statistic
- A quote that hits like a purposeful steel toe boot obliterating unprotected genitals.
Ironically this is exactly what the 2A was built for. To off tyrants.
Unlimited AR-15s and Glocks to every minority.
- Unlimited AR-15s and Glocks to every minority.
  This is unironically the same idea that started the Black Panthers. People noticed that peaceful unarmed protests were violently busted by the cops… But peaceful heavily armed protests were politely watched from across the street. So they started arming the people who were protesting, and those people were largely minorities.
Then logically one could infer that they would rather die than prevent the senseless violence.
EDIT: I’m not advocating for anyone’s death or praising what occurred. I just wanted to point to how moronic his stance was. Why would anyone say any death from gun violence is okay?
- I'm guessing it's more like they think it won't happen to them. A lot right wingers are very shortsighted. They lack the imagination or empathy that if something happens to someone else, it can also happen to them.
- It would seem he put his beliefs to the test here and it looks awfully permanent too.
- Give me liberty or give me death. Except some don't want liberty either...
I wonder if his stance on that position changed at all in the 0.5 seconds between the hit and loss of consciousness.
- I don't imagine that would be enough time for someone to even process the various stimuli enough to realize that what just happened was a gunshot, tbh, let alone consider the implications of that.
  Assuming the time wasn't an exaggeration that is, I'm fairly squeamish so I don't think I'll be watching that video to see how long it really was.
"You will not get gun deaths to zero. You can significantly reduce them....by having more fathers in the home and more armed guards in front of schools."
I fucking burst out laughing. This guy was a walking meme.
I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
Internet medical expert here.
Arteries spray, so must have hit a vein. That is survivable if you get fast medical attention to stop the bleeding. It's dicey, but since it's already been over an hour, he either has enough blood left at this point or he doesn't.
Edit: nevermind
- He’s dead. Trump confirmed it.
- He lost consciousness instantly, indicating significant loss of blood pressure towards the brain, i.e., an artery was hit.
  Secondly, not just hit but completely severed, explaining the massive non-spraying blood loss; similar to why a garden hose without the nozzle just flows. Only if it were a small enough puncture it would spray.
It has now been officially confirmed that he is in fact dead.
I just saw the clip too. Kirk fully sucked but I don't know how you can watch that video and not see a fellow human dying
- It is absolutely something to meditate on, that's for sure.
“god given rights” haha. Fucking clownery.

Trump ordered flags at half mast until Sunday. So this piece of shit got what he quite literally asked for and it’s a national tragedy, but innocent children killed in schools on a weekly basis get “nothing we can do about it, thoughts an prayers 🤷‍♂️.” Fucking clownshow.

My non-mod opinion on this:

Trump is posting Kirk is dead.

Not going to celebrate, just noting:

"I can't stand the word 'empathy', I think it's a made up New Age term." - Charlie Kirk

https://youtu.be/qO8GGZ418T8

He was sitting at what he calls the "prove me wrong" table, answering questions about gun violence.

I think someone managed it.

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Oh, so this is the school shooting that Conservatives suddenly give two shits about?

There's so many layers of irony to this event. You can't make this shit up.

A man, who made a career downplaying gun violence and advocating against empathy for its victims, was shot while giving a talk about his favorite topic under a tent that said "Prove me wrong", on a college campus in a state that just lifted its ban on weapons on college campuses. His own quotes can be endlessly used to shut down any outrage at his ironic demise.

Charlie Kirk's final moments were spent being definitively and completely proven wrong.

If this wasn't going to used as an excuse to ban Trans people from owning firearms and for further violence against the opposition, it would be hilarious.

Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes.

Video (NSFNW (Not Safe For Nazi Work))

His last words on this earth, “violence”.
- Poetry.
Extremely unlikely he survived, that shot severed a carotid artery.
- Oh my holy god, fuck, yeah, just watched the vid, jesus fucking christ, there is essentially zero chance he survives that.... oh god.... welp thats enough PTSD trigger s for me today time for ... right I quit cigarrettes... got a vape now... oh...
  ...ok, might be calling it a day for me using the internet today.
- If he got emergency medical assistance within seconds of this happening there's a small chance. For better and worse doctors got crazy good at keeping gunshot wounds in the field alive long enough to get surgery during the second Iraq war.
- You can lose about 2L of blood and I just saw more than that come out of him
Heads up SUPER NSFW
Holy fuck
- Yeah that was bad bad. Jesus
- Pretty much encapsulates it
Yeah, he's done. If you don't want to watch it, just know that it is an anime level of blood loss in a split second.
- When it comes out chunky you know it's bad.
Please extra NSFW for graphical violence. (Video is from close distance)
Ok, I don't condone this but....that was a pretty good shot.
Anyone got a mirror? Link is already dead.
- Try this (also NSFW)
- I just checked, it's still up. The link that is.
- Still works for me
Wow, that’s a dead nazi
Damn.
Wow, that's enough internet for me tonight.
That's brutal. This kind of adventurism will not help revolutionary aims in the long run.
Yeah, wish I hadn't watched that.
I kinda wish I did Nazi that.

Former President Barack Obama stressed that "this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy."

With all due respect sir, if our democracy were functioning for all of the people instead of just for the rich, people wouldn’t feel the need to vote with the ammo box.

He deserves the same empathy and compassion he gave to other victims of gun violence.

The Silence of a Fascist.

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

Trump ally Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter says.
The extent of Kirk’s injuries were not immediately clear.

trump asked for prayers. They’re going full Christian nationalist with their responses.

Kristi Noem: The secretary of Department of Homeland Security said, “Byron and I are lifting up Charlie, Erika, and their family in our prayers right now.”
Pete Hegseth: “An incredible Christian, American, and human being. May the healing hand of Jesus Christ be upon him,” the secretary of the Department of Defense said in a post on X.
Mike Johnson: The House Speaker asked to pray “for our good friend, Charlie Kirk,” in a post on social media.
Dan Bongino: The deputy FBI director said, “I don’t have the words. God help Charlie and his family.”

Nazis are so goddamn weird.

Audience member: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”
Kirk: “Too many.”
The same audience member went on say the number is five, and proceeded to ask if Kirk knows how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years.
Kirk: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”
Seconds later, the sound of a pop is heard and the crowd screams as Kirk gets shot and recoils in his seat.
Remember: The vast majority of mass attacks in the US have no connection to transgender people. From January 2013 to the present, of the more than 5,700 mass shootings in America (defined as four or more victims shot and killed), five shooters were confirmed as transgender, said Mark Bryant, founding executive director of the Gun Violence Archive.

Can we all appreciate the irony that Charlie Kirk was shot debating about gun violence?

Kirk gets shot and all the Republicrats: Political Assasination!1!1! 3 Dems get shot and one killed and the shooter has a hitlist: Meh…

Now THAT’S how you shoot a Nazi. Take note, loser who missed trump

Interesting reflection of Lemmy demographics that I haven't seen much "But he has a wife and kids, we shouldn't be celebrating his death uwu" rhetoric. Apparently even the most staunch centrists here acknowledge the harm Toiler Paper USA has done to the US populace.

There's some insane laundering of his legacy going on now over on Reddit and through American news outlets though, as if he didn't call Paul Pelosi's attacker a "patriot" or dismiss school shootings as a necessary evil of the 2nd amendment. MSNBC even fired a political analyst over calling him "divisive."

I'm not one of those people who blame every ill of the world on the "neoliberal cucks" or whatever, but damn if they don't have a point regarding the corporate capture of the United States news media currently.

Magats: declare war on liberal America, send in military to accupy blue cities, have brownshirts asaault and deport non whites, even when they are US citizens.

Magats: gets surprised when someone shoots back.

Pears - > Prayers, I guess, but can someone explain to me what those nuggety things are?
UPDATE: TIL I learned of tater tots. Nobody tell Samwise.
- Tater TOTS
- Tater tots. "Tots and Pears".
- They're pretty good, honestly. Of course they are, how can fried potatoes not be? Since they're probably not found in your grocer's freezer in your country, there are online recipes to make homemade ones.
  However , they're popular because of the pre-made convenience. People also make casserole or "hot dish" using them.
- Everyone has explained the name, but, no one has explained the why...
  They take the potatoes that won't make good fries or can't really be sold well as regular potatoes. Parboil them, rice them, form them into those nuggets then deep fry them.
  The ricing causes a tremendous amount of surface area, and they get super crunchy on the outside. They're relatively cheap because they can be made with imperfect potatoes. So they're a significant food staple in school cafeterias.
- [ tater] tots > thoughts
- 'Tots', as in tater tots.
I don't know man, in this economy, that's kinda expensive. 😬

If Mamdani would have been shot today instead of this melon headed fuck, he would have cheered.

Republican Senate Leader John Thune of South Dakota: “There is no place in our country for political violence. Period, full stop.”

Says the asshole who's party advocate for political violence every fucking day.

He didn't believe in empathy, so I'm going to honour him by not having empathy for him. He was in a position of authority and power and advocated for gun violence over the lives of kids, saying the deaths in school shootings are "worth it". I can only sympathise for his poor children though. Jesus!!

I don't live in America but I heard 3 kids are currently in critical condition after a school/mass shooting. It's weird how this got way more media coverage

Trump blames harsh language for Kirk's death

Trump posted a video that appeared to be filmed in the Oval Office Wednesday evening on Truth Social, blaming Kirk's death on harsh political rhetoric.

He said "violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree."

He added: "For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now."

U.S. terror experts have warned of rising threats from so-called stochastic terrorism, in which sometimes unstable individuals are inspired to violence by hate speech and scenarios they see online and hear echoed by public figures.

Whaaaaattt??? I am so totally shocked to hear this accusation coming from Trump.

After the FBI has already apparently arrested and released 2 suspects... That's another great thing about firing every FBI agent that was qualified to do their job in retaliation for Jan 6th. You never quite know what's incompetence vs conspiracy these days.

I was getting tired of all the bad news

So what did everyone have for lunch?

University officials said the shot appeared to come from a nearby campus building roughly 200 yards (180 m) from the event area; local media identified the location as the Losee Center rooftop.

Helluva shot then

You sure about that?

I'm somewhat surprised that the Trump Administration went this far to distract from the Epstein files.

Somehow I think the reaction to this will be totally different than it was when a gunman killed Melissa Hortman and wounded John Hoffman.

Thanks to the "good guy with a gun" who protected the world from this guy.

They detained this man in connection to the crime, however he has since been released. ~~Which is incredibly peculiar considering he and I were watching the sopranos together at the time of the incident.~~ I can’t remember who my sopranos buddy was at the time.

I'll admit, I jumped up and down like a schoolgirl when I heard. I'll gladly celebrate the death of fascists.

Change my mind 😂

Good riddance to a monster. I feel sorry for his kids though.

I find the demands from the far right to have empathy for Kirk so distasteful... I see them dive into their favourite victim role so quickly and all the woe is us and the "See, the left is dangerous" stupid rhetoric.

Kirk himself said that empathy was destroying the world, why do we need to feel empathy for that asshole now?! Like always the right only cares when it affects them...

I'm soooo tired about the nonsense from the far right.

This attack is only going to galvanize the far right, so I sure hope that the shooter turns out to be right wing. If he's left wing, I fear for the lives of many of us. The nazis are trigger happy.

One less Nazi on earth. I hope everyone has a good day.

They immediately detained people who confronted Charlie at the event (as they were more democratic), but obviously were not the shooter.
The FBI says there is a massive manhunt for the shooter and are asking for any help they can get.
The Right IMMEDIATELY blamed democrats and the "radical left" are calling for our murders and a civil war, without any scrap of evidence to prove their claims.
The shooter was a ghost, some videos show a black figure on a roof 142 yards from the tent, well blended in and in all black. There is also video of the shooter running off the roof immediately after the shooting and got lost in the chaos. It's been over 18 hours and no suspect has been caught.
Just before this event, Charlie voiced concerns over other right wing conservatives not aligning with his ideals and voicing concern over Israel. He was wearing body amour at this event and the shooter knew it. Extra security was brought in for this event.

The most logical explanations for this shooting would be:

Another right wing radical taking out a voice they feel is hurting their cause for the movement and to cause chaos in the political spectrum.
A political assassination carried out by Donald Trump and his team to start a war with democrats and start a real war within on anyone that doesn't agree with them. AKA False Flag.

It's just too clean a getaway and too good of a shot for any other explanation considering the angle of the shot, the elevation change, the crowd, and the heightened security.

A moment of silence on the floor of the US House of Representatives over Charlie Kirk’s killing has turned into a shouting match between Republicans and Democrats.
The commotion began when Republican representative Lauren Boebert rose after the moment of prayer to ask that the House also say a prayer for Kirk, according to multiple lawmakers who were on the floor during the incident, Axios reports.
Democrats then shouted “what about the kids in Colorado”, referring to a school shooting in Colorado that also occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Boebert responded that she was about to reference that tragedy before she was interrupted, the report continues.
Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna, who worked as Kirk’s director of Hispanic engagement at Turning Point USA, then stood up and yelled at Democrats: “You caused this!”
That prompted a raucous Democratic response, with Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, a leader on the gun violence prevention task force, shouting: “Pass some gun laws!”
Footage of the commotion from C-Span can be seen here on Instagram.

Source: Guardian.com live updates feed, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17#block-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17

Hope the shill money was worth it, you fucking mutant

So wait, we don't lower the flag for school shootings but we'll lower it for this ... person?

InB4 the FBI finds a random trans person to blame/frame for his death.

Preach hate, get hate.

Fuck that assclown, I hope he dies in pain.

Looks like the person they detained was released. The shooter got away and is still at large.

Charlie Kirk: Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

Did anyone notice the rainbow today?

Note to self: Don’t be such a biblical piece of absolute shit that people around the globe celebrate you being murdered and are weirdly happy about getting to actually see a video of it in decent quality which they save in case it gets deleted and looking for another one might be a little too inconvenient at that time.

https://archive.is/I9QpJ

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk said of gun deaths on April 5, 2023, "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."

Play stupid games, win stupid prices...

Photo of the new alleged suspect:

This guy doesn't look like an expert marksman, but I guess looks can be deceiving.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-appeals-tips-manhunt-continues/story?id=125469211

Cartridges with "transgender and anti-fascist" writing on them were found.

Oh, were they? That's super convenient. Almost thoughtful of the shooter to leave that kind of evidence behind but evade capture.

A lot of people seem to be writing on gun cartridges these days. Kind of a new trend I guess?

Very confused how we ended up here, but started here:

Really Kirk? On Suicide Prevention day?

There's a lot of conservatives seemingly gearing up for war saying shit like "The left doesn't understand what they've unleashed."

Conservatives get to kill who they want and the moment someone kills one of them they want to murder the left.

(At least that's what the bot-like conservative social media looks like.)

I just want to point out some things since everyone is assuming it was a leftist shooter:

No one knows who the shooter actually is.
Most leftist reactions I've seen to Kirk have been to laugh at his stupidity, not get murderously angry at him.
No political message has appeared yet, like the one Luigi put on the bullets he used. Which if you're a leftist shooter, come on you gotta at least do that homage.
The shooter killed him with one shot from a distance and got out without being caught.
I've never met a leftist who knows how to shoot a gun, nevermind one with that level of skill. If it was a leftist, I'm surprised they couldn't catch them by now by simply arresting the one leftist who knows how to shoot at long distance.

Christmas came early this year 😆

“Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence,” she said on social media.

Well its not a democracy anymore you little fuckwits, so the time for polite discourse is over im afraid. You gotta reap what you sow.

Wow I almost feel sorry for the guy. Words shouldn't ever be met with violence. But if you act like a complete cunt for years don't be surprised when you get fucked.

He is apparently dead now.

Left-wing streamer Kyle Kulinski says Charlie Kirk was feuding with nazis to his political right before he was killed.

Right-wing pundit Clayton Morris shares rumor that Charlie Kirk was concerned Israel was going to kill him, and that he was wearing body armor when he was shot.

I ate 2 burritos last night, so coincidentally I also dropped a huge piece of shit today.

Taking bets on how long before Nazi In Chief claims this as a direct attack on the conservative ethnostate and wants martial law and removing firearms from citizens?

It really says something about what a POS you are when you get shot dead and everyone's reaction is to point and laugh.

Hahahahahahahahaha hope he’s fucking dead

A good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

Out of respect for the mods, lemme just say:

(Pre-emptively) Removed by author

Sucks for his wife and kid(s) but otherwise nothing of value was lost. He made his silver spewing hate and oppression.

“This is a dark moment for America,”

Every. Fucking. Day.

And nothing of value was lost

You know the universe loves irony when Charlie Kirt gets killed in a school shooting.

Hey, be respectful. This man really put his neck out for his beliefs. He offered himself as tribute to the 2nd amendment, and we should admire his conviction. The proper way to celebrate would be to honour his wishes and show zero empathy. It's the least we can do for him.

It's a rare man that has the courage to rationalize senseless violence in defense of unrestricted access to deadly weapons, and it is even rarer to literally make that the hill you die on. He showed us all by example how you truly live your creed.

Some people I know are taking a dangerous amount of glee in this. Not dangerous in a "Oh he wasn't that bad of a guy how dare you be happy about it" kind of way, but in a "You know people can see what you're writing, right?" kind of way. The sort of stuff that would get you banned from sites or fired from your jobs.

By all means, be happy about it if you want to be, I know there are some specific minority groups out there that are cheering the house down at Kirk's death, but be smart about it. Then again I probably don't need to tell anyone on Lemmy this since privacy and anonymity are pretty key elements of the community.

Quoting Charlie Kirk himself, these actions are prudent and rational

Here’s the video. Pop.

https://en.as.com/videos/charlie-kirk-shot-in-neck-graphic-video-shows-the-incident-v/

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

"So we need a bigger distraction. Like Horst Wessel meets Reichstag fire." I wonder if someday we'll find out Trump ordered it.

Or maybe it's just chickens coming home to roost.

Or most likely of all, far-right faction fighting.

Advocated for guns on campus and 2A and died for his cause, so props for that.

So what you doing this weekend?

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

Shooter fired from a building 200 yards away and managed to give him the most stunningly ironic last words. It honestly seems contrived.

And apparently he’d been in contact with the trump administration, through frequent calls and texts with Vance, all through trump’s campaign and presidency. Wonder how they’ll deal with a seemingly immensely important person leaving so suddenly.

Rest in piss genocide denier.

So, can we call reaping what you sew getting "Charlie Kirked" now? Watching the media and Trump already canonizing this guy as a martyr is sickening. Seriously. "Oh... he got young people into politics... he was a cultural icon... what a tragedy..." Like, never mind that this piece of trash was just another bigoted mouthpiece for the establishment literally poisoning America. I don't have any sympathy at all for him or the rest of his ilk. Fuck 'em all but six.

Somebody call a Waaambulance!

Someone dial Whine One One!

I get the strong feeling that this shooting was done by a professional.

1 single shot from over two hundred yards away
shooter escapes like a ghost, and it doesn't seem like the police have found any evidence he was even there.
a separate person seemingly providing a distraction so the shooter can get away and the police just let him go.

Makes me wonder a few things

was this a false flag? (seems most likely) - especially when you consider the context of trump wanting to send military into US cities and the Republicans voting against releasing the epstein docs on the same day. This shooting was an absolutely fantastic distraction and could easily be used by trump to promote his usage of military against US cities.
was this sponsored by someone
was this another country?
if the shooter escaped so easily, how likely is it that he does this again somewhere else?

This was a dumb thing. Kirk was odious, sure, but of all the people to shoot…They didn’t even take a major player off the board, and the repercussions, the retribution, will not be worth it.

Stealing this from mastodon:

No one can say he didn't believe in what he (hate) preached, I guess. 
I don't think this is good! But at least he did.

Always glad to see a soldier of the ruling class get their comeuppance.

“gun deaths and school shootings are incredibly unfortunate but a necessary thing to help ensure our gun freedoms “ - Charlie Kirk

Glad that he is dead, time to party 😄 He got what he wanted, so no need to feel sorry for him.

He was no angel.

trump announced his death on truth social

My prediction is that another right-wing loon shit him, but even if they find the guy they'll still blame the left the same way they did with the trump shooter.

Who wants to take bets that the guy who shot him is a right-wing guy?

I'm surprised anyone took Charlie Kirk seriously enough to bother killing him. Curious to see what the motive will end up being.

In other interesting SLC news, I hit every green light on the way to the grocery store this afternoon. Bought stuff to make chili.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

What? He's still dead?

Can't help but find the smug PROVE ME WRONG banner wrapping around the canopy extremely funny.

Nurse friend of mine saw the closeup. She said

"It was a gusher. Given we have 5 pints of blood in our vascular system, he probably lost at least 1-2 before they got to him. Anymore video of what occurred next? At least enough for a bad brain injury"

🦀🦀🦀

Busy today and I agree with most of the comments. Zero sympathy for a neo-Nazi who supported the violent MAGAts and wished violence on people who disagreed with him.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah

Looks like he dead.

Not the obituary I hope to read every morning but definitely in the top 50.

Wait...he was just 31!?

thoughts & prayers

I think this is the only place where I can maybe be open about my actual feelings

I am so fucking geeked at this shit. My mom listens to this fucking roach, can't wait to see her reaction

10/10 Assassination

Get fucked, you fascist puke.

Just checking in to see if they caught the killer.. Nope? Good.

So yesterday was the 9/11 anniversary. There was also a school shooting on the same day this piece of human garbage was rightfully shot in the jugular. I read and scour the news every day and use Google News as an aggregator. So does my wife. You had to scroll down about 10-15 stories to even get to the school shooting, and I swear... I didn't see much coverage about 9/11 at all. Not like they usually do every year. But here we are with Charlie Kirk's stupid fucking face plastered everywhere as if he is someone to be admired. 9/11 and the aftermath of the war on terror DESTROYED this country. As far as I am concerned, the terrorists fucking won. All progress made up to that point began to faulter and collapse as the divisions between people beating the drums of war in that time and those that didn't want to necessarily go to war or a multifront full scale war grew further and further. That was the straw that broke the camel's back leading us to now, where a bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, piece of shit like Charlie Kirk even makes the fucking headlines. What a fucking time to be alive.

I'd like to buy the shooter a blunt

Considering some of his comments over the years, I'm torn whether this is ironic, appropriate, or hilarious.

I just can't decide.

Give Nazis the boot.

I'm super not stoked on this event, I know that makes me a big softy or whatever but I'm not gonna be the one celebrating blood and death and mayhem regardless of who it is.....BUT Charlie Kirk is was one of the leading big mouths pushing political discourse to this point. He's been helping fill the tinderbox and somebody just dropped a lit match into his lap.

I just hope to God they don't try to spin this into a store-brand Reichstag Fire moment since they can't get any big reaction from the Nat'l Guard presence.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go. - Winston Churchill

This is tragic, but not for the obvious reasons. Despite him being a hateful man who added nothing of value to this world, his death will do the same. ITT there are a lot of people who Kirk has negatively impacted. While I don’t blame anybody for how they feel, no one should be cheering or dancing about somebody’s death. But here we are.

What concerns me most is that his death will not make things better for anybody. If anything, I worry that it’ll make things much worse. Those people who followed Kirk will now feel more emboldened in their ideology, and view Kirk as a martyr. Trump and his ilk will probably lash out with more bullshit EOs or enforcement of their illegal policing of innocent people.

Celebrate while you can, as we certainly live in interesting times.

Huh. I swear I had a tiny violin here somewhere. Maybe my dog ate it.

Lmao. Also, lol.

Your lifestyle determines your deathstyle.

what a surprising turn of events from the usual cycle of bad news

I hear theres a toasty spot in hell next to Reagan waiting for him

Oh no! Anyway...

Rest in piss.

I feel pretty confident that in his last moments, he was glad to have died a necessary but unfortunate death, and to have had the opportunity to water the tree of liberty with his blood. May we all have deaths so perfectly aligned with our values in life.

His death was officially announced. Anyways…

pissy fucking mods deleting anti-nazi comments in this thread

fuck off cunts, grow some fucking balls

I expected a megathread when Israel bombed Qatar, not when some white-wing guy got shot.

People really like a personal story over geopolitics, eh.

Seeing reports of the shot being from 200 yards so this was either a professional hit or a very practiced home grown crazy.

I have to admit for a moment when I saw people commenting he was probably dead, I was glad. But after watching that video, I honestly feel like a piece of shit. Even if this somehow leads to something good. Which it probably won't. Blowing someone's throat out with a gun is just so viscerally awful.

remember when sitting republican congressmen turned the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi into a joke? like actually making jokes about it? they're so good at condemning political violence

Whoever the identity of the assassin is, they are clearly a good marksman. According to reports, they made that shot about 600 feet away from the rooftop of a nearby building. While Kirk was stationary most of the time, they landed a clean kill to the jugular with just one bullet and then made a quick getaway. That's Lee Harvey Oswald levels of accuracy. While I wouldn't estimate that the assassin was a hired professional. They likely have seasoned experience with firearms or possibly military or police training.

Was it those damn vaccines or 5G?

This is what the second amendment was for. Theofascism has no place here.

He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

Tinfoil hat time: Based on the close up of the shooting, it looks like he got shot right in the corrotid artery, which has a very high mortality rating. Then Trump posts "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 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!" Trump wrote on his social media platform. If he hasn't officially been declared dead, why is Trump saying that Charlie Kirk is dead. I'm calling it, Trump had Kirk assassinated, and this will be trump's reischtag fire. Buckle up.

didn't know who this guy was, had to look him up. Good riddance.

can today become a holiday?

The GOP is going to rule from so far away now. They already were doing fewer and fewer town halls. Now that they think they'll be in the crosshair, we may never see them in person again.

Well damn...

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd

Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was in critical condition at a Utah hospital Wednesday after being shot at a college event

and

A university spokesperson said they do not have a suspect in custody. The school previously said in an alert that police had a suspect detained.

For some reason my coworkers are upset about this, don't see why

Unfortunately he won't be the only one to die because of this.

Time for the Marines to invade Utah right?

He can join all those kids that got killed in school shootings ig

Why TF would you release this news and not include the picture?

Well done to the shooter, you are a hero.

Downvote me all you want, this fucker had it coming.

Someone on reddit found the t shirt, definitely the same kind. It has a flag and eagle with "land of the free, home of the brave".

It also is listed in numerous places as a "disabled veterans national foundation" shirt.

Under the circumstances, could be relevant.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/317271063419

Update: seems to be a gift for donating to that organization. https://www.dvnf.org/freegift15/

Of course the usual caveats - don't assume this person actually donated to them, or even is the actual shooter. But yeah, this all may be a clue why they're so slow to tell us what they know about the shooter, given that it increasingly looks like it doesn't support the narrative they led with.

As a Canadian, why does everyone care about this guy?

Just the inspiration I need to go out and get a burger to celebrate.

Chairman Trump did it, martial law incomming 3... 2...

ATTENTION CITIZEN, YOU ARE VIEWING RESTRICTED CONTENT.

CLOSE YOUR BROWSER IMMEDIATELY!!!

Did he deserve to die? I don't think it's fair to say that. He was a bad person and had a lot of bad influence over way too many people.

But even if he was reprehensible, killing him will not do anyone any good. It will just be used for further radicalization. Not that they need any excuse.

Yeesh, I'm sorry but the only thing this accomplishes is turning him into some kind of a martyr.

To be clear, fuck this guy, he's absolutely vile and a terrible person, but there will always be a million others waiting and ready to take his place and get rich spouting this hateful ignorant bullshit. No matter what happens to him, this doesn't solve anything. We cannot start normalizing assassination attempts.

Wtf is killing him gonna prove? It’ll just make a martyr of him to the right and prove to them the left is insane.

The way that shirt moves looked like it was pretty serious.

This stands as a very good chance of not ending well for all of us. There will be more deaths now I fear.

neat

Reap what you sow.

The Mormons of Utah already hate our government, if Pedo-pig decided to send in his jack-boots, I'm curious to see how they would respond.

per AP:

JUST IN: Person suspected in fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk now in custody, FBI director says

Well this is going to be interesting all things Patel.

I needed this good news today! 🎉

Be wary of fedposting, my dears. Instead, make an offering to the Dark Lord to hasten his journey to the ninth circle of hell.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news

Weapon found, lots of surveillance footage recovered, including images of the shooter (not released).

National Guard deployed in Utah in 3.. 2.. 1..

I’m sorry for his death. I disagreed with most of his points, I’m not event from the USA, but I hate seeing people celebrating the assassination of someone. What a fucked up world.

Most Schadenfreude moment so far.

Good, he got what was coming to him. He fucked around and now he found out.

You have to celebrate the holidays as they come.

When the GOP blames the left all I can say is, "The one who smelt, it dealt."

They are coming for your guns now, MAGAts. Mark my words.

Not one good guy with a gun in Texas?

From: https://sofrep.com/news/conservative-commentator-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-valley-university-event/

From the audio, I would speculate that a suppressed weapon was used to shoot Kirk from his left at a fairly low trajectory. It does not appear that a hollow-point round was used, as this would have likely caused more damage at the entrance site, which was the left side of Kirk’s neck.

SOF personnel I have spoken with regarding the shooting estimate the shot may have been taken from roughly 200 meters away.

act stupid win stupid prizes, right?

Get fucked loser

Charlie Kirk fatally shot at campus event; 'person of interest' released: Live updates

Patel said the FBI has released a person of interest in the shooting death of Kirk, less than two hours after he announced publicly that the bureau had that person in custody.

"The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement," Patel said in a post on X at 7:59 p.m. ET. "Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency."

So where did that 200 yards estimate come from?

Never heard of him.

Sad. Regardless of ideologies or beliefs, that is a wife and children without their father. Sending prayers tonight.

Interesting.

Is Trump going to invade Utah now?

And he's gone

Oh no, that sucks. Anyways…

Can Megathreads be set to auto sort by New on Lemmy?

I‘m in dire need of a matching small face meme. Shitposters assemble!

The weather has been beautiful lately. Is it autumn yet?

Oh no!

Anyway….

We're well and truly into the Troubles now,.

The shooting occurred on the day before 9-11. I wonder if the timing had any significance in the shooter's mind.

Ding dong the witch is dead!

I don't think that he deserved death. I do think there is irony in his political stance and how he did die. I do also think that the world will be a better place without him.

Welp. Probably getting martyred. Wish he died in a stupider way, like a heart attack, but you win some, you lose some.

Eat shit, Charlie Kunt.

starting to think this was planned pretext, so he could be their martyr like Ernst vom Rath was to Kristallnacht. Also distracting from Epstein files blocked again, Russia invading NATO country and Israel bombing Qatar. It was too professionally done and this is too convenient for them all....

Shame

And that’s all, folks.

Incoming medal of freedom

Unrelated spelling question: Is it "jilted lover" or "gilted lover".

Cool!

Who the fuck was Charlie Kirk? He sounds like a space captain or something

Turdpublicans suffering consequences for being complicit with malice and racism?

Good.

Hey fascist, catch!

That's interesting. Now what's for dinner?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

I was kinda hoping to never see the word "Megathread" again. Does it really need to be said?

As for the news, well it seemed like this guy was kinda willing this happen. I mean I put out there I don't care for a word, this guy seemed to put out there that gun violence was OK. Oh well.

So you people are saying it was OK to kill this guy but Luigi killing that CEO or whatever he was, was OK. Something is wrong here and it's kind of scary.

I don't want to be too, erm, graphic but was it a quick death? I mean, did he know he was shot?

The most interesting thing about people like him getting killed is that the it exposes just how morally bankrupt this country is at its core. There's no morals, no values, no principles, no accountability, no self awareness, and no consistency among the populace. Social media has really fried everybody's brain.

Anyone have a video link that isnt on mastodon? Those don’t work

Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?

I just found out about the death of Charlie Kirk. The only reason I found out is because I read the Atlantic weekly on Mondays. I live in Finland, where nobody knows and nobody would care if they did. Finland is great.

Whenever the left presents itself as good faith opposition with a different opinion I'll remember this thread.

I just wanna say, even if this guy turns out to be antifa or whatever, fuck him. He stole the headlines from Trump-Epstein and made a ridiculous oligarch bootlicker like Charlie Kirk seem sympathetic. He didn't do this to defend Trump's victims, he did it to get attention. If he dies before getting captured, piss on his grave.

Hopefully though he's some right winger who thought Kirk was too far left. Unlikely, but if it does happen then watch how fast this drops from the headlines.

Edit: I'm now increasingly convinced this is not a leftist. Ignore this post and thread.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-reports

https://youtu.be/U_eRCVqW3HI?t=94

Calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi while celebrating his death. The irony. This whole thread should be locked.

Shoutout to his family 🥴