"They were all nine years old, shot dead along with three adults in America, the land of political violence, the home of cowards who insist on political violence as a core tenet of their personal freedom.

Which kids did you think I meant? Charlie Kirk's kids?

I feel bad for them, too. I always did."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #children
/32

"But guns are not allowed to kill Charlie Kirk. Not ever.

You can tell it in how different the reaction to his murder has been, when compared to most other murders. …

Again, I feel bad for the kids.

Yes, the kids. Shot in Tennessee the week before Charlie Kirk said their deaths were necessary. Three of them."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #children
/31

"The shooter, a young white man who had been 'radicalized through an extremist network,' killed himself. Many such cases.

Which kids did you think I meant? ...

To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate how sad our deaths were after the shooting stops, depending on who we are and who our killer was."

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/30

"You know who I feel bad for? The kids. Two of them. Perfectly innocent of all this.

They were victims of a school shooting in Colorado, in one of our nation's many, many, many school shootings, a subset of our nation's many many many mass shootings, a subset of our nation's many many many gun deaths. The two victims are in critical condition."

~ A.R. Moxon

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/29

https://www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-losses/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

"Republicans heard the sounds of little children begging for help and shrugged. As Kirk put it in a quote that is justifiably making the rounds today, 'I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.'”

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/26

"There were those who thought that Sandy Hook could be a turning point, and then Parkland, and then Uvalde (and the dozens of others whose body counts are less sensational). The lives of these little children have been held up to the faces of conservative lawmakers with the expectation that anyone who has ever loved a child would be moved by their deaths. That somehow, hearts would unharden."

~ Ana Marie Cox

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https://newrepublic.com/article/200327/charlie-kirk-empathy-trap-democrats