Charlamagne Tha God has sparked dialog after addressing the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk throughout Thursday’s episode of The Breakfast Membership. The radio host condemned the killing as “horrific” whereas additionally stressing that Kirk himself had lengthy acknowledged the dangers tied to his staunch pro-gun beliefs.
“All people is simply assuming that is political violence and it fairly presumably is…matter of truth I’m positive it’s, however you already know what else it’s? Gun violence,” Charlamagne stated on air. “These nutjobs who don’t imagine in freedom of speech clearly imagine of their proper to bear arms, and due to the lax gun legal guidelines in America they’re capable of get firearms to hold out these violent acts.”
He defined that information of the capturing instantly struck a private chord. “Once I heard what occurred to Charlie Kirk yesterday, I instantly felt concern. I’m a Black man in America, I take into consideration getting shot every single day. However guess what? Each American ought to take into consideration getting shot every single day once you’re out in a public place, just because it’s been zero days since a mass capturing occurred on this nation.”
Kirk, who was outspoken in his protection of the Second Modification, was fatally shot whereas talking at Utah Valley College. Authorities imagine a high-powered rifle was used, although the suspect stays at massive.
Charlamagne added that whereas he didn’t share Kirk’s ideology, the incident raised broader issues for public figures. “I don’t wish to dwell in a rustic the place media personalities are being shot and killed for his or her opinions or what they imagine,” he stated. “However as a lot as we wish to level to the First Modification and say all of us have freedom of speech, we aren’t free from the implications of stated speech. There’s a price to every part that comes out of our mouths and sadly, we don’t get to set the worth.”
He then performed a resurfaced clip of Kirk himself acknowledging that actuality: “You’ll by no means dwell in a society the place you’ve an armed citizenry and also you gained’t have a single gun dying. That’s nonsense. However I believe it’s price it… to have a price of sadly some gun deaths each single yr in order that we will have the Second Modification to guard our different God-given rights.”
Reflecting on these phrases, Charlamagne questioned the logic. “Even when Charlie Kirk had a gun yesterday, it wouldn’t have protected him. When any person’s received the drop on you, they received you. The one factor that would have saved Charlie Kirk was retaining weapons out of the palms of violent extremists like the one that killed him. And the one approach to do this is with widespread sense gun reform.”
