Obit: Right-wing activist and co-founder of the ubiquitous Turning Point organization Charlie Kirk, only 31, was shot dead in Utah of all places today. He made a great living as a podcaster or talk show host extolling, among other things, the virtues of not being a college graduate. He was a junior college dropout, but, like so many other young people on the right, he hitched his star to the gravy train and made a bundle of money along the way.
However, there is a price to be paid for being way off the beam politically, and he found out today how big a price. He leaves behind a wife and two small children.
Perhaps the biggest shock of all is that more of these radical rightists haven't been killed.
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He had a huge following.
Media Matters noted this from Kirk from two years ago, which turned out too ironical for words:
Now, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price -- 50,000, 50,000, 50,000 people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving -- speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.
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