Utah Governor Laments He Can’t Blame an Immigrant for Kirk’s Death

“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”

Now that you’ve had to admit, “Hey, we do do that here” what are you doing with that? Have you experienced any epiphanies?

Hell no. Their magic underwear keeps that from happening.
- And throat slit vow
What a fucking joke of a human
- hes spencer cox, what you expect, hes the one that allowed GUNS ON CAMPUS in the first place.
any epiphanies
Clearly, we must thoughts and prayers even harder.
- All these people keep on praying, but the whole time they forgot to think
- sounds like tiffany the expensive jewelry chain.
How ugly that is to admit it out loud. What a fucking racist
Honestly, if he'd just left it at "another state," I wouldn't even be mad. I totally get wanting the degree of separation. But adding "another country" absolutely betrays his true thoughts. What a gross thing to admit.
The quote makes it seem a lot more understandable than the title makes it out to be imo
- TBH - that’s exactly why I added the quote when I posted the article. But I still think it’s fucked up with the full context; just not as fucked up.
Someone I could hate and justify that hatred against the Left…

I would've sworn this was an Onion headline. What an absolutely deranged piece of shit.

It would have been a perfectly acceptable thing to say (in my opinion) if he didn't follow up by saying the suspected shooter certainly appears to be one of them.
The original statement makes sense that the person who's job is to govern an area hoped it wasnt one of the people he represented.
Then when he made the second comment, it all fell apart because being one of them apparently meant they could still be a Utah resident. So he was only representing a subset of the Utah population, and therefore breaking his Oath of office.
What's the opposite of "eating the onion?" Barfing it up?
- Smelling rotten onion?

Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”

In 2023 over 15,000 people were murdered with guns in the United States. You definitely do that there. You know you do. You're very good at it, and you refuse to do anything about it. You have no compassion for the other victims, so to cry about how one of your own was at the receiving end is political theatre.

How many of those deaths are gang on gang violence?
In 2023, the majority of U.S. gun deaths were suicides (58%) and homicides (38%).
That's pretty wild. But with over 400,000,000 guns in the USA it's not going to stop anybody.
- Not sure if this is serious or a bit. These were Kirk's last words more or less

Cox is a fucking clown, a shameful excuse of a governor.

I grew up here, in the Mormon church, too (out for several years now). These are not the principles I was taught. This goes against every single thing that Jesus taught. Someone using their position of authority to parrot "god" is exactly the kind of person Jesus would have thrown out of his temple.

Someone using their position of authority to parrot "god" is exactly the kind of person that created Mormonism. The LDS church was literally born from this exact sort of thing.
You're absolutely right, it goes completely against everything the Bible tries to teach, but somehow I don't think that's going to be a very big deal to them.
- Yep, 100%. The entire Smith family were well-known con artists.

I honestly thought I was in /c/TheOnion

bullet casings with the phrases, “Hey fascists! Catch!” with an up arrow, a right arrow and three down arrows,

Boy was trying to call in a 500kg on the target.

I now say "calling a Charlie" in Helldivers when I need a 500kg. Or replace Charlie with Kirk, or a combination of the 2.
- 500 kirkagram

Patel right behind him like, "Man I wish it wasn't one of us too."

No scapegoat for you. Maybe try facing your moral and policy failures this time? No? Ok, keep praying to god. Maybe next time he'll help you out with a black trans muslim shooter instead of yet another young white conservative dude.

i like how cox is tryting to avoid blaming the shooter , because hes a white straight ultra right male. cant be hurting a straight white maile voting base.

How do these clowns manage to put their shoes on?

What do you mean? That's tradwife duties.

The Right is the party of murder.

Welcome to Utah; it's the new Florida!

His talk was pretty decent except for this bizarre thing which is wierder the longer you think about it. I mean I sorta get it but man.

It's pretty normal for a governor to say they wishes an act of terror hadn't been committed by somebody living in their state. I think this makes us look shitty.
- I have never heard a govenor express such sentiments. They often express the act had not happened in their state. Are you being sarcastic?

Just good ol honest home grown terror.

no... he laments he can't blame a nonmormon.

Lol rolled the dice, came up snake eyes again.

So, who ARE the terrorists?