The shooter was NOT a Radical/Left/Communist/Trans/Black/Brown/Woman/Democrat. Nope. The shooter was a white, 22 year old kid from a "god-fearing," Republican Family. A kid with a major case of Internet-Brain-Rot. Yes, seems to be another white kid radicalized by spending long hours deep in internet chat rooms of terror & doom. Maybe a nihilist of the gamer culture? But what are the purveyors of hate doing? They seem to be clinging to their initial story.
The Lunatic Right-Wing really, really don't want to admit that the problem is the gun-culture, disinformation, conspiracy-minded-thinking, and the young, internet-radicalized unhinged. They are trying to make a hero or martyr out of Charlie Kirk, but instead he was just a successful purveyor of hate who became the latest victim to the gun. Yes. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
BTW - Who was Charlie Kirk? Elizabeth Spiers at The Nation has a good obit:
Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a gunshot to the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor Foster Feiss, and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/#
