Staff Reports
America lost a true patriot yesterday when radical leftist violence claimed the life of Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old conservative hero was gunned down in cold blood while speaking to students at Utah Valley University. His killer shot him in the neck during what should have been a peaceful debate event.
Charlie Kirk built Turning Point USA from the ground up to fight for conservative values on college campuses across America. He dedicated his young life to defending freedom and truth against the radical left machine. Now he has paid the ultimate price for standing up to woke ideology that has poisoned our universities.
President Trump called this murder exactly what it is – a heinous assassination of an American patriot. The President honored Charlie as a martyr for truth and freedom who understood the heart of young Americans better than anyone. Trump and Melania sent their love to Charlie’s wife Erika and his grieving family.
This was not some random act of violence but a targeted political hit job against one of our most effective conservative voices. The killer is still on the loose while the FBI scrambles to find answers. How many more conservative leaders must die before we take this leftist terrorism seriously.
For years the mainstream media has demonized patriots like Charlie Kirk with the most vicious attacks imaginable. They paint conservatives as enemies of democracy while ignoring the real violence coming from their own side. Their hateful rhetoric creates the climate that leads to assassinations like this.
Charlie was simply trying to have an open debate with students when a coward with a gun silenced him forever. He was doing what conservatives do best – engaging in free speech and challenging bad ideas with better ones. The left could not win the argument so they resorted to murder.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox got it right when he called this a political assassination. We have seen attack after attack on conservative figures while the media stays silent or makes excuses. The violence against Paul Pelosi, the attempts on President Trump’s life, and now Charlie’s murder show a clear pattern.
Every American who loves freedom should be outraged that we have lost this brilliant young conservative leader. Charlie Kirk died fighting for the country he loved against forces that want to destroy it. His legacy will inspire a new generation of patriots to carry on the fight for America’s soul.
