Charlie Kirk shot at (shot?) in Utah

[thebeave]

I heard of Kirk years ago because just like Ray Comfort he engaged in the idiotic idea that the Banana proves God, and was so ignorant as to not know that bananas as we know them were created by man, by genetic manipulation of original fruit, which had different appearance and colour (purple).
My recent exposure to him has been on youtube, where he posts videos (I don't watch these), but many skeptics do videos refuting his rubbish and I have watched some of these.
He is a fairly minor entity of the right, so his shooting was probably mainly a target of opportunity. Not to engage in conspiracies, but his murder could also be a false flag operation designed to further enflame an already unstable MAGA mob.

EDIT: I got my Kirks mixed up; it was Kirk Cameron with the banana. They are easy to mix up, as both have same fan base.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Remember, the right isn't for violence. The right is fighting for peace and a stable society!

"Restoring victory and clarity as an end state. Restoring intentionality to the use of force. Fight decisively, not endless conflicts. Fight to win, not not to lose. Go on offence, not just on defence. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. Raise up warriors not just defenders."

- Pete Hegseth

 

[GenesisNemesis]

You know another thing I just noticed? We should never care about any of the violent rhetoric Trump has put out, because "it's just rhetoric!" But also we should care about the "violent rhetoric" about this event. Weird, that.

 

[crazyfingers]

I wake up this morning and see all the media is gushing over this christian Taliban scum bag.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, according to the AM dial, the left killed Kirk. A lot of religious imagery being spouted. Seem to be about a few steps away from them telling their listeners to take arms. AM Radio folks stunned by lack of security for a political influencer.

I'm wondering if we'll ever know the shooter. The idiots in charge of the FBI won't help the investigation, and it this was a one-fer... for whatever reason, there might be almost nothing to go off of.

One thing I'm starting to sense is the alt-right is devestated because Kirk was charismatic, and unreplaceable. They aren't sobbing over him being with Jesus, they lost a major tool for the youth vote.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Well, according to the AM dial, the left killed Kirk.

They would be saying that no matter what though. Their modus operandi is always blame the left and never look critically at their own rhetoric.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I wake up this morning and see all the media is gushing over this christian Taliban scum bag.

NPR wasn't. They held to the truth.

 

[Harry Bosch]

I wake up this morning and see all the media is gushing over this christian Taliban scum bag.

NPR wasn't. They held to the truth.

Which is why their funding is being slashed by Trump.

 

[Elixir]

We seem to think its worth it to have a few deadly plane crashes every year in exchange for the convenience of flying. I've never heard anyone say its not. Or medicines, vaccines and surgeries that can have deadly, but rare, side effects. The list goes on.

Yeah the list of INADVERTANT causes of deaths is very long but assassination by gunshot is not one of them.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

If Kirk was the intended target, that’s pretty good shooting - a kill at 200 yards.

Not an unusual skill in still air, depending on the weapon. The way it blew his neck open looked like a high velocity round. 200 yards with a .scoped .223 isn’t exactly a gimme, but close to it for a good shooter.

The longest confirmed sniper kill was reportedly by an anonymous Ukrainian sniper on August 14, 2025, at a distance of over 4,000 meters (approximately 2.5 miles), using a Snipex Alligator rifle to eliminate two Russian soldiers.

Was Charlie’s killing from 500+ feet a record distance for an American political killing?
(Assuming it wasn’t a jealous boyfriend of some chick who had a crush on Charlie)

This is all another baby step down the road to authoritarian global government. Sad to witness.

I suppose the shooter was aiming for the head and missed in a way that bailed him out? Do hunters aim for the head? Why not aim for the big part? Is 200 yards a difficult shot for the average hunter?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Zuckerberg help me. For the first time in a decade I vented a paragraph on Facebook. It was a description of what Leopards Eating Faces means and I didn't mentioned poor, poor (oh so motherfucking poor!) Charlie, but that's it. Trumptards will be too stupid to get it.

A very appropriate reaction.

Lest we forget:

"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

The "God-given" part of that quote is crap, of course. And the rest of it is, admittedly a crass thing to say out loud. But isn't it implicit in the establishment of the 2nd amendment that the founding fathers knew the basic context to be true? Certainly, they had to have understood that assassinations and gun crimes were an inevitable consequence of 2A, and thus a price to pay for the "right to bear arms".
Granted its a rather morbid thought, but as a society, we seem to be OK with that concept when it comes to many things. We seem to think its worth it to have a few deadly plane crashes every year in exchange for the convenience of flying. I've never heard anyone say its not. Or medicines, vaccines and surgeries that can have deadly, but rare, side effects. The list goes on.

At least you say it out loud now.

 

[pood]

Zuckerberg help me. For the first time in a decade I vented a paragraph on Facebook. It was a description of what Leopards Eating Faces means and I didn't mentioned poor, poor (oh so motherfucking poor!) Charlie, but that's it. Trumptards will be too stupid to get it.

A very appropriate reaction.

Lest we forget:

"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

The "God-given" part of that quote is crap, of course. And the rest of it is, admittedly a crass thing to say out loud. But isn't it implicit in the establishment of the 2nd amendment that the founding fathers knew the basic context to be true? Certainly, they had to have understood that assassinations and gun crimes were an inevitable consequence of 2A, and thus a price to pay for the "right to bear arms". Granted its a rather morbid thought, but as a society, we seem to be OK with that concept when it comes to many things. We seem to think its worth it to have a few deadly plane crashes every year in exchange for the convenience of flying. I've never heard anyone say its not. Or medicines, vaccines and surgeries that can have deadly, but rare, side effects. The list goes on.

You missed the bolded part somehow?

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.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Zuckerberg help me. For the first time in a decade I vented a paragraph on Facebook. It was a description of what Leopards Eating Faces means and I didn't mentioned poor, poor (oh so motherfucking poor!) Charlie, but that's it. Trumptards will be too stupid to get it.

A very appropriate reaction.

Lest we forget:

"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

The "God-given" part of that quote is crap, of course. And the rest of it is, admittedly a crass thing to say out loud. But isn't it implicit in the establishment of the 2nd amendment that the founding fathers knew the basic context to be true? Certainly, they had to have understood that assassinations and gun crimes were an inevitable consequence of 2A, and thus a price to pay for the "right to bear arms". Granted its a rather morbid thought, but as a society, we seem to be OK with that concept when it comes to many things. We seem to think its worth it to have a few deadly plane crashes every year in exchange for the convenience of flying. I've never heard anyone say its not. Or medicines, vaccines and surgeries that can have deadly, but rare, side effects. The list goes on.

You missed the bolded part somehow?

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.

We also have various safety regulations to reduce deaths for other reas- oh yeah conservatives don't care about those.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Zuckerberg help me. For the first time in a decade I vented a paragraph on Facebook. It was a description of what Leopards Eating Faces means and I didn't mentioned poor, poor (oh so motherfucking poor!) Charlie, but that's it. Trumptards will be too stupid to get it.

A very appropriate reaction.

Lest we forget:

"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

The "God-given" part of that quote is crap, of course. And the rest of it is, admittedly a crass thing to say out loud. But isn't it implicit in the establishment of the 2nd amendment that the founding fathers knew the basic context to be true? Certainly, they had to have understood that assassinations and gun crimes were an inevitable consequence of 2A, and thus a price to pay for the "right to bear arms". Granted its a rather morbid thought, but as a society, we seem to be OK with that concept when it comes to many things. We seem to think its worth it to have a few deadly plane crashes every year in exchange for the convenience of flying. I've never heard anyone say its not. Or medicines, vaccines and surgeries that can have deadly, but rare, side effects. The list goes on.

You missed the bolded part somehow?

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.

We also have various safety regulations to reduce deaths for other reas- oh yeah conservatives don't care about those.

As far as accepting crashes, two airliner crashes involving the 737 Max (not even in the US) and we grounded that thing.

 

[Elixir]

Not an unusual skill in still air, depending on the weapon. The way it blew his neck open looked like a high velocity round. 200 yards with a .scoped .223 isn’t exactly a gimme, but close to it for a good shooter.

It's well within its effective range, but a bigger caliber would make it easier.

What Col. Sanders said. You should just STFU instead of parading your ignorance.
Remember - it was just a couple of years ago that you thought a .223 was the same as a .22
The depth of your firearms expertise is already the stuff of legend around here.

 

[Elixir]

I'm wondering if we'll ever know the shooter. The idiots in charge of the FBI won't help the investigation, and it this was a one-fer... for whatever reason, there might be almost nothing to go off of.

S’posedly there’s lots of evidence and the shooter would normally be found within hours or a couple of days at most.
But the clown car of trumpsuckers now pretending to run the LE game in this country, may very well lack the required competence to ever find the shooter.
Plus, if they DO identify the shooter and it turns out to be another right wing nutjob, they’ll probably Oswald him.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Vance is cancelling 9/11 Memorial trip to visit Kirk's family?

Trump to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Kirk.

Is it too early to speak of canonization?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Whatever the motivation of the shooter this will energize the Christian right.

Christians are under attack.

That opens the door for Trump to enhance his position with Evangelicals as a Christian savior form god.

Chaos opens the door for dictators.

Okay, so here's the deal with that. If they're going to do something they haven't already been doing, e.g. declaring martial law in certain cities, they were going to do it anyway. There are federal troops stationed in blue cities now. They're taking people off the streets indiscriminately. It's provocative. At some point, someone was going to give them their reason.

It's like a perversion of Bill Bixby's line from The Incredible Hulk when he says "Don't make me angry: You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." In the present political climate though, it'd be like Bixby's character pushing nerds around and taunting him with the line. Eventually some nerd's going piss him off, thereby giving evil Bixby an excuse to transform into the Hulk.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Whatever the motivation of the shooter this will energize the Christian right.

Christians are under attack.

That opens the door for Trump to enhance his position with Evangelicals as a Christian savior form god.

Chaos opens the door for dictators.

Okay, so here's the deal with that. If they're going to do something they haven't already been doing, e.g. declaring martial law in certain cities, they were going to do it anyway. There are federal troops stationed in blue cities now. They're taking people off the streets indiscriminately. It's provocative. At some point, someone was going to give them their reason.

Yes and no. One thing I heard said on one program this morning, the preacher (I assume he was a preacher of some sort) noted that Kirk was for open discourse and liberal society. "The people that killed him didn't". It is a very subtle detail that they would say "the people", but the intent is far from subtle. The response from the right-wing on this guy's death is out of the ordinary. Kirk was a talker, an influencer, and he is being heralded as a combination of JFK and MLK Jr, not hyperbole, that is what some on the right are saying, what I heard on AM talking head say, not some person who called in. He is being spoken about in religious terms. This appears to have sparked a crisis of faith among those on the alt-right or they are using faith to rise up their faithful for some hostility to be named later.

And we still don't know why he was targeted. But they are feeding it like this is a siege against their lives... despite the targeting and murder of Democrats as well recently.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Not an unusual skill in still air, depending on the weapon. The way it blew his neck open looked like a high velocity round. 200 yards with a .scoped .223 isn’t exactly a gimme, but close to it for a good shooter.

An expert on tv said it looked like a 308 or 30.06 to him. So a deer rifle with a well sighted scope could do it.

And for all we know maybe it was supposed to be a headshot and he missed.

It depends on the angle. In this case it sounds like the shooter was shooting from an elevated position. If the shooter was compensating for the elevated angle and attempting to hit center mass (the solar plexus area), but compensated incorrectly, then that's why the neck shot happened.

It's unlikely the shooter was going for a head shot because it's much more difficult to hit due to its small area size and relatively frequent movement.

There's also the zeroing factor. Different people disagree on what distance any given weapon should be zeroed to. For common bolt action hunting rifles like the .30-06 or .308 WinMag, many will set for 400 yards and then compensate up or down from there if the target is inside or outside the 400 yard range. Thus, if this guy set to 100 and if the target was 200, then he would've had to slightly compensate for the drop. If that's the case it seems like he probably overcompensated, hence the neck shot.

It sounds complicated but it really isn't. 200 yards with a scope, whether or not its zeroed to that distance, still leaves lots of room for error. In short, a very basic knowledge of marksmanship would allow someone to make that shot.