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Monday, April 10th, 2023

Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

Author:     NICK MORDOWANEC
Source:     Newsweek Magazine
Publication Date:     4/6/23 | 5:39 PM EDT
 Link: Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment
Stephan:  

There were 48,832 gun-related deaths in 2021 per CDC data—the highest single-year number on record and up 8 percent compared to 2020. There is no other country in the world not embroiled in an active war that has numbers anything like that. How is this permitted by the Republicans who block all attempts to pass rational gun legislation? MAGAt Charlie Kirk dared to say what gun-obsessed Americans believe but never say. "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 to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." 

Charlie Kirk speaks at Culture War Turning Point USA event at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on October 29, 2019. Kirk said at a Turning Point event Wednesday that gun deaths are unfortunately “worth” it for the preservation of Second Amendment and “God-given rights.” Credit: Megan Jelinger / AFP / Getty

Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder and president of Turning Point USA, said during an organizational event on Wednesday that gun deaths in exchange for the preservation of Second Amendment rights is part of America’s reality.

Kirk’s comments come about one week after three children and three adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Nashville mass shooting was the 130th mass shooting in the United States in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents across America using data collected from law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources.

The U.S. has averaged more than one mass shooting per day since the start of 2023, per the archive, which puts the nation on […]

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2 Comments

  1. Sandra Kathleen Heggen on Monday, April 10, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    Is it wrong of me to think that maybe if he and/or his family could partake of this Second Amendment protection his ideas might change?

  2. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 10:42 am

    The second amendment was put in place when the citizens were required to join forces to defend our country, but are not necessary not. That is why guns should be banned.