The Murder of Charlie Kirk

“When discourse ends, violence begins.” - Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk was just murdered in cold blood for the crime of having an opinion.

America will never be the same. I will never be the same. The image of him bleeding out on that stage will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Charlie was not the right-wing extremist the left would have you believe. He was an ordinary American man. At just 31 years old, Charlie was a husband, a father to two young children and the founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit that engages with young people on college campuses. He loved to debate students with opposing viewpoints and always approached disagreements with respect, compassion and thoughtfulness. His entire life reads like a love letter to free speech.

And now he’s gone.

Charlie was shot in the throat while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. After witnessing his brutal murder, which was publicised online for the entire world to see, I didn’t think things could get any worse — until I saw what liberals were saying about it.

One woman who attended the event says she even saw a group of protestors cheering as Charlie died before their eyes.

This is what the left has become: delighting in the murder of a man whose only crime was to have polite conversations with people who disagreed with him. This type of reaction is not normal. It’s utterly inhuman. Liberals have completely lost their fucking minds.

Charlie was all too aware of the rise in left-wing violence. He tried to warn us. Here he is, calmly explaining that by engaging in respectful debates, he is risking his life:

Here he is again, warning us of the same thing:

Colleges and universities are not what they once were. They have become breeding grounds for extremist far-left ideologies that despise independent thinking. Students are no longer being educated; they’re being indoctrinated and radicalised in the worst possible ways. As someone who attended a liberal arts college in the 2010s, I can attest to this. I experienced it firsthand. The atmosphere there was suffocating.

I’ve been on quite the political journey in recent years. My views have changed dramatically in a very short period of time. I might still be stuck inside the same echo chamber today had I not been exposed to people like Charlie.

Watching his videos reignited my love of debate and reminded me why I value free speech so dearly. Sure, I didn’t agree with him about everything — but that’s what made him so interesting to watch. Charlie pushed me to reach outside of myself, question my worldviews and embrace the freedom that came from changing my mind.

And I never even met him.

I wish I had. I would have thanked him for his dedication to free speech and for his bravery in speaking out, even when it made him unpopular and hated. Even when it put a target on his back.

The vile coward who murdered Charlie is still at large. It’s still too early to make definitive statements about who might have done this. Yes, the left has grown increasingly violent in recent years — but the precise manner in which he was shot suggests this might have been the work of a professional assassin. Charlie had recently begun to speak out against Israel and the Jewish lobby. Sources close to him have alleged that he was worried Israel might kill him for this.

I confess that amidst government crackdowns on free speech, friends disowning me for my views and the looming threat of real-world violence, I’ve been afraid to speak out about certain things.

All of that fear is gone now. It’s been replaced by anger.

We simply cannot allow these people to win. In an age of censorship, the bravest thing we can do is continue to speak — even as our voices shake, our hearts pound and our legs buckle beneath us. Our voices are our most powerful weapons, far more powerful than any gun. Our voices are our life lines.

Thank you, Charlie. We will carry the torch for you now. Rest in eternal peace.