After the horrifying tragedy that we just witnessed, nobody is going to be able to deny that there is a rising tide of far left violence in America. By now, most of you have viewed the footage of Charlie Kirk being assassinated. It is a moment that will be burned into our memories forever, and all of us will remember exactly where we were when it happened. This is truly a pivotal moment for our nation. Every time there is a large public gathering involving a major conservative figure, everyone will be thinking about the possibility of another assassination attempt. The far left declared war on the right long ago, but at first most people on the right didn’t seem to get it. The sort of violent civil unrest that many of us have been warning about for a long time is here, and it isn’t going to go away any time soon.
For those of you that are just learning the news, Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a speaking event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday…
Charlie Kirk has died after being shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump confirmed.
The conservative commentator, 31, was hit by a single bullet while speaking to crowds at the public university in Orem on Wednesday afternoon.
Father-of-two Kirk, known for his fierce MAGA views and thrilling debates with college kids across the country, collapsed immediately after being hit by the gunfire.
He was only 31 years old.
He had a young wife and two very young children.
But many on the far left don’t seem to care.
In fact, some of them are publicly celebrating this assassination.
That tells us a lot about where we are as a society.
At the moment he was shot, Kirk was responding to a question about mass shootings…
Video posted on social media shows the moment Charlie Kirk was shot and the seconds leading to the incident. Kirk was being asked questions about mass shootings in America.
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.
The shooter fired at Kirk from the top of the Losee Center, which was approximately 200 feet from where Kirk was located.
Footage that is being widely shared on social media shows the shooter running across the roof of the Losee Center after Kirk had been hit.
Down below, the very large crowd that had gathered descended into a state of panic…
Sophie Anderson, 45, who was standing 100 feet from the stage when the shooting happened, told the Daily Mail that she almost got trampled as she ran off into the food court where she hit in a closet.
’The second it happened, I knew it was a gunshot,’ said Anderson, who was joined at the event by her boss Phil Lyman, a former Utah state representative who was handing out hats on stage with Kirk just five minutes earlier.
’He was shot in the neck and just fell over and he was just a fountain of blood,’ she said. ‘They carried him off. All these kids are just falling apart and bawling.’
One student at Utah Valley University that was at the event said that he actually got trampled by a couple of people that were attempting to get out of there…
“We hear a shot and then there’s a wave of blood come out of his chest, and we all get down. I had a couple of people trample me actually, so it was pretty horrific,” said Ethan, a student at the school.”
Utah Valley University is currently on lockdown and all classes have been canceled for the day. Those who remain on campus should contact police for an escort before leaving. BYU in nearby Provo said it remains open but with an increased police presence.
“It just sound[ed] like an earthquake, and everyone starts screaming,” said Angeline Paul, who was in a classroom next to the courtyard. “And then all these kids start running into our classroom … falling on the ground, and they’re like, ‘There’s a shooter! There’s a shooter!’”
Initially, there were reports that Kirk was still alive.
But shortly thereafter, President Trump confirmed that he was dead…
The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!
Immediately after the shooting, authorities detained an elderly white male, but they quickly determined that he was not the shooter.
At this hour the FBI has taken another suspect into custody, but so far they are not releasing any additional details…
A suspect accused of opening fire at Charlie Kirk as he spoke at Utah Valley University has been taken into custody, FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed.
‘Thank you to the local and state authorities in Utah for your partnership with [the FBI],’ he wrote.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has also confirmed that a ‘person of interest’ is in custody and is being questioned by authorities.
Nothing is going to be the same after this.
A politically-motivated assassination just occurred on U.S. soil, and it threatens to tear our country apart.
On Wednesday afternoon, there was even chaos on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives…
The House floor erupted in chaos after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a moment of silence to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University.
Johnson announced to reporters before heading to the House floor that he would be holding a moment of silence. Immediately following his moment of silence, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked for a prayer to be read, and she was met by Democrats yelling “no.”
The back and forth continued as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) screamed, “You f***ing own this” at the Democratic side of the House floor. Democrats immediately clapped back, pointing to a Colorado school shooting just hours earlier.
In the old days, something like this would have brought the nation together.
But that isn’t how things work in our time.
In fact, there are quite a few leftists on social media that are greatly celebrating that Kirk has died…
Multiple TikTokers reacted casually to the shooting, with one mock crying while a dramatic song played, with the caption: ‘Charlie Kirk got s**t? Awwww.’
‘Hitler giving Charlie Kirk a tour in hell,’ one liberal posted, adding a GIF from a TV show.
Others mocked Kirk’s steadfast commitment to open debate and exchange of ideas: ‘Why didn’t Charlie Kirk just debate the bullet? he would have easily deflected.’
How disgusting is that?
But this is the society that we live in now.
We live in a society that is filled with hate, and that hate has been erupting in wild and unpredictable ways in recent months…
The attacks include the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband at their house in June, the firebombing of a Colorado parade to demand Hamas release hostages, and a fire set at the house of Pennsylvania’s governor, who is Jewish, in April.
The most notorious of these events is the shooting of Trump during a campaign rally last year.
Needless to say, President Trump is the number one target for the far left, and so he is going to have to be very careful from this point forward.
On Tuesday night, he went to Joe’s Seafood with several members of his cabinet, and he was immediately confronted by crazed protesters…
In a video posted on social media by Prem Thakker of Zeteo, protesters stormed the restaurant and chanted, “Free D.C., free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time!”
In the video, which was seemingly recorded by one of the activists, Trump is seen entering the restaurant and walking toward a table. At one point, the president stops to face the camera directly and appears more amused than annoyed. After a few seconds, he motions toward security and says, “Come on.”
“Let’s go,” a man tells the protesters. “Time to go, time to go.”
Trump is very fortunate that nothing happened, because there are so many violent nuts out there these days.
As of early September, there had been 44 school shootings in the United States so far in 2025, and on Wednesday there was another one…
Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday.
The shooting happened around midday at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.
All those taken to the hospital are believed to be students, Kelley said. She did not immediately have details on their injuries.
So many of the school shootings that we have seen have been politically-motivated, and I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if this one was politically-motivated too.
And even when violent acts have no political motivation at all, many on the far left feel like they have to insert politics into the conversation. For example, in response to the debate over the horrifying murder of Iryna Zarutska, Black Lives Matter posted a video clip that declares that “oppressed people have a right to violence”…
Zarutska, 23, fled Ukraine in 2022 due to the war with Russia. She was fatally stabbed from behind multiple times on August 22 while riding Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line light rail train at the East/West Boulevard station.
Surveillance footage captured the unprovoked attack by suspect Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., 34, who has been arrested 14 times in the past, including prior assault and weapons charges, but remained free.
On Wednesday, just one day after the full video of the murder was made public, Black Lives Matter posted a clip from the 1983 film “Born in Flames,” in which a black woman declares, “Right to violence. All oppressed people have a right to violence… It’s like your right to pee. You gotta have the right place, Gotta have the right time.”
Iryna Zarutska wasn’t “oppressing” anyone.
She was a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman that had come to the United States to escape the terrible war in her own country.
How can anyone have a “right” to murder her?
But this is how divided our nation has become.
We have been trained to bitterly hate those on the opposite end of the political spectrum, and that is a horrible thing for our society.
The mainstream media has been stirring up this hate for years, and now we are seeing the consequences. As Jason Curtis Anderson has accurately observed, we are entering “a new era of civil terrorism”…
“The assassination of Charlie Kirk marks a dangerous escalation in America’s culture war—where the battle of ideas is now escalating into political violence against those who run organizations devoted to debate and civil discourse. Very few people grasp the gravity of this moment . Incidents like this don’t exist in isolation; they risk triggering a chain of events that can further destabilize the country.
Whether it’s the anti-ICE movement, pro-Palestinian agitators, anarchist networks, or NGO-backed permanent protest groups like Indivisible, we are watching the rise of something new and deeply alarming. As @tal_fortgang wrote in @CityJournal, America is entering a new era of civil terrorism—where the goal is no longer peaceful protest, but intimidation, silencing, and destabilization of our democratic order.”
When I first started reporting that groups on the far left were openly talking about the need for an internal “revolution”, there were skeptics that felt that I was being way too alarmist.
But now look at what has happened.
They aren’t going to stop. In fact, if they get their way they will throw this country into a state of complete and utter chaos.
From this point forward, please watch your back.
Our society is literally teeming with crazies, and they are becoming increasingly violent.
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