“What have we become?”: Charlie Kirk Shocked in American Political Parties after Shooting | Charlie Kirk Shooting

cHarlie Kirk Assassin’s bullet died On a Utah university campus on Wednesday, the United States was already in a state of desperate shock with growing political anger and polarization.

Kirk, A rising star of Donald TrumpHe once again made the United States Great (Maga) movement get shot by a shot when he spoke to a crowd of students at Utah Valley University. The event was called the grand opening of his 15-stop “America Comeback Tour” but will be marked as where he said his last sentence.

The 31-year-old right-wing student group’s turning point U.S. leader has about 20 minutes of Q&A, ironically, when the shooting sounds, it involves mass shootings in the United States. Within seconds, hundreds of students radiated from the campus lawn.

Within minutes, the terrifying video began to spread through social media, apparently not being overshadowed by any algorithm. They showed Kirk was hit, falling to his left, bleeding heavily.

Long before Kirk declared his death at 4.40 pm – Posts From his championship, the US president has been in the truth society – a deep wave of shock swept across both sides of the American political divide.

“It’s so scary. I was stunned,” said the Republican senator in Texas. Ted Cruzdescribing Kirk On Twitter/x Since the young activist was a “good friend”.

Kirk has expressed his paranoid views without shame and no hesitation in the political arena of the United States and has engaged in homosexual and Islamophobic remarks. he Recent tweets: “Islam is the sword used by the left wing to slit the throat.”

He mixed evangelical Christian faith with right-wing politics. Last fall, he claimed that Democrats “represent everything God hates”, adding: “It’s a Christian country. I want to see it keep it that way.”

But mourning for Kirk crossed the political aisle.

MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough sometimes in his criticize Kirk’s political stance has been called “tragic and disgusting” in the shooting. He added: “Violence against political public figures is a violent act against American democracy itself and the freedom to express one’s own point of view.”

Barack Obama’s former White House clerk Tommy Vietor issued a darker warning. Political violence, He saidis a kind of “cancer that feeds itself and spreads…it will tear the country apart”.

The more certain political violence that goes off-road is engraved in the psychology of the United States. The country had to absorb assassination by four current presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, as well as a tragic trilogy of Kennedy in the 1960s, his brothers Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Those grim historical landmarks are brought to the public consciousness Assassination attempt Trump was at a rally held by Trump in July 2024 at the presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump survived through the breadth of his hair, and he has since claimed it was an act of God’s will. The second possible assassin later waited for Trump on a golf course in Florida, and was discovered in time by his security details.

Meanwhile, the U.S. was shocked by the streets of the killing of a top healthcare executive on the streets of Manhattan, and in June, a gunman brutalized killing a local lawmaker to die in his home.

Kirk’s death – the precise motive behind his killings so far remains unclear – puts America on the brink of a new abyss, a black cloud looming in the security of its public figures and the sanctity of public debate.

“What the hell are we?” Catholic writer Emily Zanotti asked many people. In her comments X FeedAnother poster said: “We met the enemy, he is us.”

Dylan Housman, editor-in-chief of right-wing news media, also expressed a premonition. “We can’t live in a country like this,” he said.

The temperature of American political discourse has been rising for months. As Democratic Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois said, after the Kirk shooting, “Unfortunately, political violence has been aggravating in this country.”

In June, a Democratic Minnesota Congressman, Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Killed in a gunshot. Federal and state judges have reported many threats, including Unsolicited pizza delivery Their home is weirdly mentioned, referring to the 2020 killing of Daniel Anderl, the son of New Jersey District Judge Esther Salas.

Kirk’s killing brings this prosperous discourse to another level of violent scourge. As TV politics journalist Chuck Todd pointed out, the location of the shooting itself indicates that there could be trouble. “On college campuses, we should celebrate the speech, not try to keep it silent.”

The victim’s identity has also greatly increased the ante. Kirk is the golden boy of the Maga movement and is Trump’s favorite.

The president called Kirk a “legend” in his post proclaiming his death. When Trump’s eldest son is seen as a personal assistant Donald Trump JR, during the 2016 presidential election.

Kirk’s rise in Maga Pirinmamen is as hot as the display of trademark fireworks, which opens up his turning point “People’s Practice”. He attracts speakers on the stage like a magazine royal family – JD Vanceformer Trump White House adviser Steve Bannonentrepreneurs and presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamythe female congressman of the far right Marjorie Taylor Greene And more.

By Wednesday night, people had already started airing on how Trump administrationa wider magazine campaign will respond to the loss of one of the people they love deeply. “Some people are crazy [political violence] In this country, Pritzker said.

Kirk made a comeback tour later this month at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. On September 25, he plans to debate progressive influential Hasan Piker.

Piker posted fear on a live broadcast following the Kirk shooting. “It’s a terrible event,” he said. “The resounding of people seeking revenge after this violent, damn incident is really worrying.”