by The assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday was a political assassination. It could have happened about anywhere where he was speaking. That it happened at Utah Valley University where he was speaking with and to a crowd of students should be irrelevant.
That is, of course, unless you are Everytown and you need to score points.
It is as if the Everytown social media team had been binge watching House Hunters or some other real estate oriented TV show and heard the agent saying, “Location, location, location.” Then it clicked that Charlie Kirk was murdered on a college campus. Voila!
As Kat Stevens said in her excellent essay on the murder of Charlie Kirk, Everytown is trying to re-classify this political assassination as a school shooting.
I would urge everyone to read Kat’s essay. It should be must reading for this day after this horrific event. I would add that you should also keep Kirk’s wife and children in your prayers. I know what it is to lose a spouse but I had months to prepare for it. She and the kids did not and to see it happen in full Technicolor on every TV station only makes it worse.
H/T Kat
Concur on Kat’s OPED. And NO this is NOT a school shooting, it was a political assassination. Plain and simple.
I think it was George Carlin who first asked: How important do you have to be, to be “assassinated”, and not just “murdered”, like the rest of us? 😉
Just in case anyone needed a refresher on the evil present – we have the comments on X and more importantly, bluesky.