This is not the way. Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot while speaking. The murderers think they won. They think wrong.
Kirk died onstage at Utah Valley University, struck by a rooftop sniper during a Turning Point USA event. The shot, heard around the ‘net, made his voice in death louder than it ever was in life. The killers, whoever they are, believed Kirk’s death would silence him. Idiots. Murdering a messenger does not silence the message. It amplifies it. Just ask Jesus. Ask Gandhi. Ask Ovid.
His death sparked national outrage, with figures across the political spectrum condemning the act as a desecration of civic discourse. The timing is grimly resonant: falling within a day of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, another moment when violence was wielded in the belief that it could collapse an empire. But conviction endures. Destruction doesn’t silence—it sanctifies.
From Ovid to Jesus to Gandhi and others, history is littered with dissidents whose deaths became megaphones. Kirk now joins that choir of angels whose deaths accomplished more than their lives ever could. You stupid fools. Kirk wasn’t a national figure—maybe a regional somebody until you murdered him. You didn’t kill his words. You committed political suicide.
You Just Made Him Louder
“Try harder,” the zealous legalists say. Our devotion to the Cult of Collapse is suboptimal. So, we must go harder.
Calling and emailing political leaders goes nowhere. Chanting and marching in D.C. gets headlines, but the machine grinds on. Punching cops feels good—until they punch back and spray your face. Then there’s the jail time and the criminal record—bleh. Turns out that part isn’t very awesome. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! goes the cry.
There is a grotesque logic at play: that violence purifies discourse and escalation equals progress, if we just “try harder”—shoot up a church, murder a political figure, weaponize grievance—we’ll finally move the needle. But it doesn’t work. It never has.
A white nationalist kills innocents in a sacred space. A black man murders a white woman. A political assassin silences Charlie Kirk. What follows? Polarization, spectacle, and further moral erosion is what follows. The fantasy that destruction yields justice is both evil and stupid.
The shooter lost a war in one shot.
After God Died
American Progressivism mutated into a psuedo-religion. It is dogma cobbled together from secular humanism, Maoist fervor, and New Age cultism that sanctifies dysfunction and demonizes discipline. Its gospel elevates five pillars: grievance, malady, kink, addiction, and atheism.
Competence is heresy. Health is oppression. The faithful are shocked—shocked—when criminals and crazies spiral deeper instead of rising. The creed promises salvation through chaos and chaos responds with, “meh.” This is not just incoherent—it is corrosive ideology driving its devotees to greater depravity.
Normies flexing their progressive urges don’t imagine the crazies acting on their LARPing slogans and cosplay revolution—they think it’s all a vibe. Westmen, Decarlos Dejuan Brown, and whoever killed Charlie Kirk thought all that cosplay was life. The Cult of Collapse runs on dogma that the unstable act out. The results are tragic.
After Jesus
Jesus was the shiny target. But it was his followers who built the path to Constantine’s bargain with God. The shooter who killed Charlie Kirk may have imagined himself a disciple—born in the 1980s, trained in range time, analog paranoia and tactical culture. He is someone who took the slogans literally. He didn’t get the game and thought the cosplay was canon. And in trying to play along, he ruptured the stage and sanctified the message.
Generational change happens slowly. It was 400 years between Christ’ ascension to sit at the right hand of God and Constantine’s prayer to win a battle. Rome tried across centuries to quash this cult of dissident Jews claiming that their icon was God. Each brutal suppression had the opposite impact—the cult grew. Two thousand years later a lowly stone mason from Nazareth inspires billions to keep the faith.
Kirk becomes a martyr who will not be forgotten. AOC warned, “Kirk’s assassination risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America.” Political chaos and violence are the point for the Woke True Folk. Kirk’s death is meant as a provocation. Mehdi Hasan, a frequent target of Kirk’s rhetoric, posted: “Nothing, nothing, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
Fate
There is a tragic inevitability to Kirk’s death. To a zealous progressive, a true believing Woke True Folk, he was an existential threat. Within that frame he had to die. Pick a conspiracy theory—the swamp, transtifa, the remains of Black Lives Matter, whatever viral radicals are front and center today. Doesn’t matter. In the mind of the shooter he was solving a problem. Kirk must be silenced. The fates declared it so.
Asshole. The shooter murdered nothing. He birthed a new energy for Turning Point USA and its supporters. Kirk is receiving national attention. Many Red Tribe media outlets are mourning Kirk’s death.
I mused on who or why Kirk was shot Yesterday, on learning of Kirk’s assassination. He was a lightning rod. You can’t fight the dominant paradigm without attracting opposition. More than that, you can’t gain notoriety without attracting weirdos. Is that enough to answer why he was shot? No, it isn’t, sadly.
Hope
Let me give you some names. People who became touch points in history.
Start with Perpetua and Felicity (203 CE). Two young Christian women who chose death in the Carthage arena rather than renounce their faith. Their defiance—especially Perpetua’s prison diary—became a foundational text of early Christian witness, where conviction outlived empire and suffering became scripture.
Next is Socrates. Condemned to death in 399 BCE for challenging the gods of the state, mocking conventional wisdom, and refusing to flatter power. His death transformed philosophy into a moral act—truth pursued even when it costs everything.
Last is Martin Luther King Jr. A gunman ended his life in Memphis. That moment marked the close of the civil rights movement’s nonviolent phase and sealed his legacy. He became more than a preacher—he became a turning point in American history.
Perpetua and Felicity, Socrates, and MLK were nobodies until fate touched their lives. Their deaths sparked movements that refused to die.
That’s what is birthed by the death of Kirk.
You Changed Nothing
Sir Shooter, you changed nothing. The bear you poked is awake and pissed. Every cop in the country has the APB announcing your identity as the suspect. You will be found. Capital punishment cases take decades. You are not getting out of prison, ever. Was it worth it?
Why? Why shoot Kirk? Because death would silence him? Fool! You turned a provocateur into a man and a moment into a monument. Congratulations.
We are not a democracy. Our Constitution established a Republic, if we can keep it. Efforts to make us a socialist empire began over a century ago. The work succeeds and fails to one degree or another over time. With over a century of hindsight to refer to we know now that socialism fails. It cannot fulfill its promises because its core is hate. Socialism destroys everything it touches. Kirk fought against it. In your act are you saying a century of history is wrong? That somehow you changed something?
You Murdered Something
Your bullet shot more than a man. It leaked out any hope of a Socialist Utopia. The thing you murdered is a dream of a better, more Woke America.
Jesus was the touch point. In three years or so he taught blasphemy that spoke truth to power. The Romans crucified him at the request of his Jewish peers. Back then, you can’t say you are God. Still true. It’s been over two thousand years since he died. If assassination can silence words, then how do you explain the billions of followers of a stone mason from Nazareth? Or the memorials to Martin Luther King, Jr.? Last one, the young women Perpetua and Felicity who would not renounce their faith and paid with their lives?
Leaders start things. It is the followers who pick up the mantle and carry it into the future. Kirk was a public speaker of national repute until you, Mr. Shooter made him even more famous. It’s too soon to say where things go next. I can say what we can and should be doing.
Do This
It’s something I repeat when asked, “what can I do?” It’s also advice I try to live by.
- Own the land you live on
- Where allowed to do so, keep chickens or small livestock for milk, eggs and proteins
- Learn to pickle, cure, and put up food then do that.
- Keep a garden and as much as possible, eat from your garden.
- Find and join your people, be they church, community organization, Masons, Rotary, whatever.
- Donate/tithe to organizations you believe in.
- Volunteer
The news will get bored with Kirk’s death and move on to the next triggering thing. “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” The next outrageous thing will fill the headlines. Kirk’s legacy won’t just go away. It will be remembered long after the news wants it to be forgotten.
This is the way: to live walking toward light. Bless the Lord, and as we are able, bless others.
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