Charlie Kirk’s Crisis of Murder and Political Violence

Three thousand people participated in the turning point event in the United States Charlie Kirk Speaking on the Outdoor Green at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The huge scale of that crowd – in the morning, in a school in the suburbs of Provo, even if some protested there – is just another evidence that Kirk inspired teenagers and twenties to build a strong movement over his years of campaigning. There is a Q.&A. Partly, someone asked how many trans Americans have been mass shooters in the past decade, and Kirk replied, “too many.” The next one asked, “Did you know how many mass shooters there are in the United States over the past decade?” Kirk said, “Count or not count gang violence?” Then, in the video, there is an audible crack and Kirk’s body asshole, and then becomes likable. In the audience, head turn: someone fired his gun, apparently shooting from an elevated position one hundred and fifty yards away. Soon, a Kirk spokesman announced that he had been killed. He was 31 years old and stayed behind a wife and two children. President Trump was a close ally, ordering all flags to be hung on the half-court rack until Sunday night.

Kirk’s death was cruel and tragic. It also has the goal of terrorists to spread political panic. After the killing of a clear political resonance, there was a time of premonition as the public waited for news about the perpetrator’s identity and any hints that might have inspired horrible behavior, as well as brackets of punishment. However, information usually does not bring any clarity. We have a good understanding of the politics of motivation Luigi Mangioneaccused killer Unitedhealthcare CEO and James Fields Charlottesville And killed a young woman.

But the political motivations that define Thomas Crooks (Who) Trying to kill Trump Last summer, at Butler, Pennsylvania or Cody Balmer, accused of bombing attacks Gov. Josh Shapiro’s official residence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Killed a Minnesota State Assemblymanalong with her husband, trying to kill another person) is soon plagued by their obvious mental illness or more basic inconsistency. Robin Westman accused of shooting and killing two children Catholic Church in Minneapolis Last month (its trans identity is the focus of many right-wing media coverage), wrote “Kill Donald Trump” on some weapons, while the neo-Nazi slogan (“Jewish” and “6 million is not enough”) and said with Sandy hook Shooter, Adam Lanza. Their motives are so strange and trait-like that they cannot be easily attributed to any party.

The impact of these violence on politics is easier to track. Shortly after the news of the Kirk shooting, Tommy Tommy Vietor, a former Obama administration official and liberal expert, wrote on social media: “Political violence is evil and irrefutable. It’s a kind of cancer. If that’s right – Violence is contagious– This is because each behavior produces its own pattern of fear response. News itself has been an ubiquitous catalog of political aggression and anticipated fear in recent years. In 2022, a man arrives at Brett Kavanaugh’s home with Glock and flap boots. Later that year, a man broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home, Trying to murder her husband Use a hammer. The threat to members of Congress has also escalated significantly over the past decade. “I’m often very anxious about using my voice because revenge is real,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican of Alaska, at a meeting this summer. Democratic Congressman Greg Landsman, following a shooting of lawmakers in Minnesota. Tell era Every time he stepped out of the campaign, he was haunted by the vision of murder. “It’s still in my mind. I don’t think it’s going to go away,” he said.

What politicians can control is their reaction. Trump condemned his enemies while speaking at the Oval Office on Wednesday night. “For years, radical leftists compared a brilliant American like Charlie to the Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” he said, “with Barack Obama Massive shooting exist Emanuel Church, Charleston’s MotherTrump has no posture on his common nation. He restricted a group of victims to those who were consistent with him. The man sitting on a firm table blamed the enemy for political demonization, in “acting in the most hateful and mean way” – earlier this week he promoted a new movement ice In the Chicago raid, there is a social media post that himself is Robert Duvall’s character and tag line in “Apocalypse,” “I love the smell of morning deportation…” Chicago is about to find out why it is called the Ministry of War. “This aggression, coupled with Kirk’s shooting, seems to have realized the culture of cultural war in real time.

The scenes of Kirk’s murder are frightening. His head was dragged; blood poured out from his neck. Then in the press conference, the university’s police chief had only six officers to protect the crowd of three thousand people, saying, “You tried to cover up your base, unfortunately today, we didn’t.” It’s no wonder he was. The universality of weapons and the ease that almost anyone can obtain makes it increasingly difficult to protect human life. The threat of political violence is so popular is one reason that Trump’s movement is becoming more and more real to the country: it is distrustful and feels jeopardized. In Utah, the people closest to the stage quickly threw themselves on the ground, and then, as they realized what was going on, in the wave of moving outwards from Kirk. This is a visual manifestation of fear, a transmission. ♦