Charlie Kirk Shooting

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TRN is the stamp of the ammunition manufacturer apparently, so given that is highlighted in the video still I doubt there is any truth whatsoever in the rest of it.

I actually bothered to watch the video...

The engravings found on the unused casings "Hey Fascist! Catch this!" and the one with the arrows are taken from the game helldivers 2 - is that a sign of being a trans lefty? Why on earth would a trans lefty engrave "If you can read this you are GAY LMAO" either? Yes the "Bella Ciao" was an anti fascist song, but that is hardly conclusive proof as it was also a meme used by the Groyper Army (led by Nicholas J. Fuentes) who often targeted mainstream nazi / far right people for being too commercial and not radical enough. The "Notices bulge" was another meme, often referring to / taunting the furry sub-culture.

So pretty much all of the etchings are internet memes and / or game references, none of which are really left leaning either. The video mentions they are memes but is trying to cast them in an entirely different light.

It looks to me a lot more like an individual who spent a lot of time getting drawn into internet culture and these memes were things he found relevant or funny - hard to see any particular left or right leanings as like most memes, the use gets changed over time and often things get used ironically.

Is another murder wrong, of course it is - nobody deserves to be killed for their opinions. Is this kind of thing going to happen again when the current political leader is doing nothing but stoke hatred, in a country were guns are readily available, and even the victim described his own murder as a reasonable statistic to retain access to guns - of course it is.

The president making a martyr out of this senseless murder, but pretty much dismissing every school shooting, the murder of democratic politicians in their bed, freeing the people responsible for the Jan 6th deaths, etc. just shows how every tragedy is another thing to be ignored or used for his own personal gain.

For that video to describe Charlie Kirk as "Not a hateful person, just someone who disagrees with you" though is absolutely rewriting his legacy. After all do any of the following quotes make him sound loving and caring?

1. "We must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty... We need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. But 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,"

2. "I can't stand the word empathy, actually," he said. "I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage."

3. He has admitted that if his 10 year old daughter was raped and made pregnant he would not allow her to get an abortion.

4. "Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."

5. Regarding Taylor Swift's engagement "Engage in reality more… Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.”

6. "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"