The shock of Charlie Kirk being gunned down in Utah just doesn’t go away. There’s no one who’s been involved in conservative politics who doesn’t know about Charlie – even if some of us never met him – and there’s no one who doesn’t feel like this could have been the fate of any conservative speaker out in public.
We don’t know everything about the shooter yet, but we certainly know that the national media have long carried a partisan message that Donald Trump and his supporters are an “existential threat” to democracy. It’s not hard to imagine that this constant message would lead someone to feel that it would be heroic to eliminate this threat.
Managing Editor Curtis Houck lays out the worst of the bias that emerged in the first few hours after this awful murder.
Former Republican Matthew Dowd proclaimed on MSNBC that Kirk was responsible for his own shooting: “I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that's the environment we're in that, you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and not expect awful actions to take place.”
ABC reporter Aaron Katersky claimed “there were people on both sides debating whether he should even be allowed to bring his message, often loyal to the agenda of President Trump, to campus.” White House reporter Mary Bruce underlined how Kirk was too controversial: “It's no secret that Kirk has said a number of controversial things over the years, in particular about DEI, Jews, women, LGBTQ community, people of color."
Of course, a variety of journalists lamented "permissive" gun laws, as if they can prove that this shooter didn't acquire their rifle legally. In so many cases where liberals preach gun control, their "solutions" wouldn't stop bad shooters from acquiring their weapons.
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