I am hesitant to use the words 'conservative' and 'liberal' in this context because I have no idea what exactly is being conserved as the United States runs even further down the road into illiberalism. I am also convinced that the terms 'left' and 'right' as they are used in the United States is completely irrelevant to any kind of proper economic analysis.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is objectively evil. He has been stolen from a wife who now no longer has a husband, and two children who no longer have a daddy. They have to live with the consequences of an evil bastard's actions for the rest of their lives.
Yet here's the absolutely idiotic thing about the United States: absolutely nothing meaningful will happen as a result of this.
Granted that the President will more than likely award Charlie Kirk some token medal posthumously, like the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as if a medal in a box was any compensation at all for the loss of a husband and father, but in essence the United States will yell madly for ten days and then forget about this. In the meantime, another five mass shootings will occur.
Why? Fundamentally the United States doesn't and has never held those truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. It has always held that some people are worth less than others and has repeatedly legislated as such. Neither does it believe that people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, of among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, because if it did it would do something about protecting those rights. It does not. It refuses too... joyfully.
The difference between the two big political football teams in the United States are the colours of the flags they wave. One waves a rainbow flag, the other a flag of khaki fatigue. They are playing the same game by the same rules; both of them are dedicated to the proposition that killing people is acceptable. Between the Second Amendment and Guns and Abortion Rights, the United States consistently kills more people than all the wars it has fought in.
Only months ago, Minnesota politician Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot in an equally politically motivated assassination, after that gunman visited four homes belonging to state lawmakers.
Do you remember that? No? Let's start up the political cheering by claiming that this was a plot by the other football team. Selective memory really is a strong thing, isn't it?
The really idiotic thing about this is that not only does the United States find this acceptable but thinks that killing innocent people is a necessary cost of their so-called 'freedom'.
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113
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.
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You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death," Kirk said at a Turning Point USA Faith event on Wednesday, as reported by Media Matters for America. "That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am—I think it's worth it.
"I think it's worth 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. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
- Newsweek, 6th Apr 2023
God-given? Really? I must have missed this because between Torah, and Jesus' clarification on the two greatest commandments, I just don't see how having the instruments of murder could be a "God-given right". You're going to have to cite scripture for this to prove that.
Also, this was the words of Charlie Kirk in the abstract; where the deaths of other innocent people were acceptable to him. Would his own wife and children still agree with him, considering that his life has been paid as blood sacrifice? Is that really an acceptable cost? Is it rational?
I think that killing people is evil. I think that allowing people the right to keep the instruments of death is both evil and stupid. If you think that the Second Amendment is a right worth having, then you must accept the death of Charlie Kirk as "prudent" and "rational". As a result, I think that you are both evil and stupid.
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