OREM, UT – Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass shootings in schools.
Dale Shaw, an investment advisor from Salt Lake City, says the event has cast a shadow over his activism supporting Americans’ right to bear arms even if it leads to the most per capita school shootings of any nation on the planet.
“The Second Amendment is the foundation of American liberty,” he said. “With an armed populace I know that the occasional tragedy can occur, as it does, almost literally, every day in our nation’s schools. But Charlie is someone I actually cared about.”
“Sure, Charlie Kirk once said he thought ‘it’s worth it to have some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment’,” Shaw continued. “But I just figured that meant some little kids had to go. Not someone truly important like a podcaster whose extreme views just happen to align with mine.”
Debbie Lansing, a human resources director from Provost, echoed these thoughts.
“After Sandy Hook I was worried that our right to bear arms would be curtailed by that tyrant Barack Obama,” Lansing notes. “So imagine my relief when absolutely nothing changed after that tragedy, or after any of the school shootings that’ve occurred since.”
“But now that it’s happened to Charlie, maybe there is some other, secret culture of violence that we need to confront.”
“It’s one thing when Charlie made light of Nancy Pelosi’s husband being brutally beaten by an intruder,” Lansing added. “But when a violent attack happens to him, it really makes you think. Not that much, though.”
Both Shaw and Lansing had similar reactions to the news of a school shooting in Colorado that occurred the same afternoon, where two students were injured.
“Yeah, that’s a shame,” said Shaw. “But I just hope people don’t politicize it.”
“Absolutely,” added Lansing. “I just want to send them my thoughts and prayers, and nothing else.”
