Bet he didn't see that coming, at 3,400FPS

This is MAGA propaganda to spur them on. Who really thinks it was anyone other than trump and his goons who made this happen. They probably already had the 'shooter' picked out and are planning the frame as we speak. It worked with Luigi so they will just keep doing it until its the US version of fell out a window.

We don't even know who did it. This meme is stupid. Could've been another MAGA idiot getting mad at something he said.

Worse than stupid, it's dangerous.
The current fascist administration is DESPERATE to find and paint a segment of a population to not only blame this on, but also to round up and punish that segment.
I don't think we should be cowering in fear of the administration and their cronies, but we can't do any good if we're all locked up, deported to Narnia or being burnt at the stake.
Especially bad considering that this is massively likely to be a right-wing veteran if he's ever caught.
- I wouldn't say they are desperate. They already just make up shit. A true reason is better than a fake one one but so far "crime" has been good enough to slow walk things.
What's funny is that historically, it's usually a maga moron who does something violent. Even the guy who shot Trump voted Republican

My money is on a Trump/CIA plot to distract from the Epstein files.

I would say it's not even to distract as much as to silence him. If you watch the event, he was talking about it 20 minutes before being shot. He was saying that other republicans needed to answer for blocking the release of said files. The fact he wasn't letting go of the epstein case and he has one of the biggest followings of young republicans, he was a threat to whoever doesn't want that discussed. It's possible it could have been something else, but who knows?
- If true, things are not looking great for Nick Fuentez.
I swear, Trump could order the military to murder every single person left on the political spectrum of Hitler tomorrow, and people would be like "Stop trying to distract from the Epstein files".
- I mean, we have a pedophile in the white house, and an open cover up of it. A normal person would be on trial right now, and/or already in prison. We should be making a big deal about it.

i'm more than a bit skeptical that "the left" was responsible for this. I think its highly likely that this was a false flag attack.

given the location and the years i lived there, knowing nothing else i'd think it's someone who thinks kirk wasn't far right enough
- Yah it's more likely than not some unhinged, violent right-winger either listening to the voices telling him who's actually a lizard person or that Charlie Kirk is actually a clone and/or involved with some Q-anon fuckery.
  BECAUSE THAT'S WHO IT ALWAYS IS.
  When you're someone who wants to solve the world's problems via rifles with scopes, you're not a balanced, well-adjusted person to begin with. I'm sure there are plenty of people with left-leaning ideas who fit this bill, but we're just talking probabilities here.
I fucking hate BlueAnon. Sure there's a good chance it was someone even farther right than he was, but not everything is a false flag. Do you have literally any evidence of it being a false flag beyond "just think about it bro"?
- The fact that the bullet casings supposedly had "transgender" wording inscribed on them is a little too convenient to not raise suspicion. Either A) whole thing was setup or B) evidence is being doctored. C) Could be all on the up and up and everything just falls into place perfectly, but how likely really?

Is there any confirmation that the shooter was in any way a leftist, or motivated by left wing ideals? From all I know, it was some random guy who could have been a right winger who thinks Trump is centralizing the government which goes against his Ayn Rand ideology; or it could just be a loonie.

None, here's what we probably know
It was probably done with a rifle at some point, shooter was on a roof, shooter ran away, that's about what we know at this point.
For all we know, it could have been an incompetent hunter two kilometres away.
- Sir this happened in Utah they use God's own units.
  Since it was a rifle we use football fields. 22 football fields away.
  American football of course. We have no idea how many football pitches this might have been. 3? 200? There's just no way to know.
- who doesn't take the time to clean their rifle while at a public event?
As far as I can tell, they know absolutely nothing at this moment in time. So just you generic "the people I don't like did it" rhetoric.
- Squids did it!
No. The shooter was a CIA operative sent by Bill Clinton to distract from the Epstein files. It will turn out that the "suspect" is a young black Arab Mexican man from China sent here to start a lgbtq+ revolution.
This is a false flag to further supress any non white Christian men.
Also I don't know who the shooter is. But I do know we were together all day in Florida at the time.
- Can confirm, I also was in Florida with ya'll at a BBQ that day.
- I bet he was one of those Wiccan Buddhist atheist

Didn't they not even find the shooter? It could be like trump's failed assassin

There was no attempt. Its should be so blindingly obvious by now. This guy cries bitches and moans abt shit from the 90s, if it was real he'd still be crying about this shit today akh. He slapped his ear after the "gunshot" and in the famous photo there's NO WOUND, his ear's completely intact, it's js red. You'd think after a man almost got his headtop licked off, he'd have a wound 😐 What's more damaging, EAR CARTILAGE DOESN'T FUCKING HEAL, so yeah it was staged.
Now onto the kirk bastard the shooter who has not been found yet btw, had made the shot from a building 200 yards away with a high-powered rifle. Now I'm no conspiracy theorist, and this is ALL purely speculation, tr*mp posted on truth his message to send prayers. At that EXACT same minute Ben Sketanyahu stopped his bombing campaign of 7 different countries to tweet his prayers for kirk.
- 200 m was the standard range distance when I was in the army and we'd usually group in at least 10 or 15 cm target with iron sights. And that was with a plain Famas.
  200m is nothing with a rifle.
- 200 yards is pushing it with the bb guns we train kids with. 200 yards with a rifle isn't a big deal. Kind of at the limit of iron sights. Once you're dialed in though you can group rounds in to something about the size of a dinner plate pretty easily.
- What the hell are you talking about. 200 yards with a .308 is a totally doable shot. I dropped deer at that distance.
- Uh he didn't die slowly, it was essentially instantaneous

This sucks for Kirk's family. They should release the Epstein files.

those kids will totally get bullied by other kids showing them the video of their dad dying. that's all I really feel bad about today.
- Yea. About the only thing sad about this.
  Like, they are still kids, Charlie might have been a bigoted fascist but that's far too complicated for children to fully understand; to them, he was just "Dad".
  It is truly unfortunate for them they had the ill fate of being born to such a horrible person, but that horrid person was spreading rhetoric which has resulted in countless other children losing parents themselves. All I can hope is that those kids grow up to understand this.

I'm willing to bet it's a right-winger. Some deranged psycho that bought into the right-wing conspiracy hate sphere they always use and has an axe to grind with Charlie's flip on releasing the Epstein files.

Hoping it’s feral ass MAGA realizing they have been fooled and starting to turn
Wouldn't that be poetic.
- It's pretty much what happened with trump's near success.
It was pissrael. Hear me out, the shooter who has not been ID'd yet was found to have made the shot with a high powered rifle from 200 yards in a nearby building He had reported WAY before his death that if he "steps out of line" the pissraelis would kill him. As soon as he went hospital, tr*mp posted to "send prayers" on truth and the EXACT same minute Sketanyahu stops his bombing campaign on 7 different countries to tweet his prayers for kirk. We all know at the end of the day he was nothing but a payed propaganda shill, whether he believed all the bs he said or not.
- but there’s NO WAY a civilian was able to hit that shot from 200 yards away, you can make jokes about missing the headshot all you want,
  This is laughably incorrect. 200 yards w/ a scope isn't an issue for myself or any hunter I know.
- I've sat next to dudes on a range ringing plates at 300+. They sight their iron sights to 100 yards, a 200 yard shot is just raising the rifle a little bit higher and waiting for a lull in the wind. With a scope, it's practically point and click for anyone who spent the time practicing.
- Are you trying to be sarcastic or are you just dumb? We may never know.
- I am struggling to see what are you going for with "Sketanyahu". It's the 2nd time you've typed it, so I know it's not a mistake. Is it pronounced like skeet-anyahu as in "Aw skeet skeet muthafucker!"? I've always heard his name pronounced like Net-an-yahoo. Is sket pronounced like "net" a slur I'm not familiar with? Sket kinda makes me think about skeletons (spooky) or skittles (tasty) and I guess Halloween is coming up 🤷‍♂️
  Pissreal makes sense. It's straightforward. You could keep it simple with Satanyahu or Naziyahu. If you wanted to draw parallels to Holocaust for the genocide he's committing you could do NetanyAuschwitz. Not a direct comparison, but I think people would follow that train. I'll say that I thought there'd be a more obvious play with the "yahu" part. Best I could do was Nut-and-yahoo if you want a groaner or NetanYahooSerious if you're into 80s Australian comedy.
- If we’re just throwing wild ideas around, how about Russia fanning the flames of civil unrest?

We dont yet know if the assassin is from the left

It won't matter as they will accuse the left regardless.
- "Will"!? Our mad orange king, as well as the other MAGA freaks are already blaming everyone left of "the poors should be hunted for sport" for this. Right now. Regardless of the killer's beliefs, it so obviously wasn't a coordinated campaign approved of by every non-conservative...
- Joe Biden did it on his bicycle.
Yeah, this is as dumb as Trump calling it political violence.
Could be any number of people he fucked over or stiffed. These types if people (sociopaths) don't care about anyone but themselves.
- It’s obviously political violence though, whether the shooter is from the left or not. But sure it might be an elaborate mafia hit or his wife’s ex-boyfriend acting out some revenge fantasy – seems awfully unlikely though.
I have wondered from time to time where the militant left is.
- Lol, it's gonna be a disgruntled former magat
- Bitching, on the internet.
- Gripping the rifle with thighhighs makes girlcocks look cuter. So uh, we were distracted. Tyrannywhat?
What if... there is a civil war, but it's old-school conservatives vs MAGA?
Right? Most of the left don't even know who this dude is. It could be a business partner for all we know.
- Interesting point made in live updating CNN Manhunt article:
  Here’s why authorities may be having a hard time finding Kirk’s killer, according to a chief CNN analyst From CNN’s Tori B. Powell
  A manhunt is still underway as law enforcement tries to find the person who fired the shot that killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk today.
  According to CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller, the shooter’s planning, skill and execution may be complicating the search.
  He told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that snipers have been studied closely by the government and they typically are people who are “methodical and patient, self-reliant.”
  “This is the kind of person who would have planned to get in silently, try to be invisible, take this shot, accomplish the mission, take the gun with them and leave little evidence behind which is why I think they’re having a very difficult time getting started on this.”
  Officials said earlier today that they believe the shooter fired one shot at one person and that it was a targeted incident.
  The single fired shot shows that “the person is not new to shooting,” Miller said, which ultimately could help officials get to the bottom of the investigation.
  “This is someone who knew exactly what they were doing and is probably known to others, and this may be working to the advantage of law enforcement,” Miller said. “As someone who has a long history in shooting, this wasn’t an amateur.”
  So, dude takes his position, fires a single shot for the kill, and then disappears without a trace. Pretty impressive.
- People on Lemmy are more likely to know but yes, I tried explaining to my dad how much of a shitstain this guy was. His take away from TV News was that this guy was somehow not MAGA and therefore it's sad. Like, no, he very much is MAGA, lol
- He's one of the most meme'd on conservatives of the last decade in leftist spaces. Who doesn't know his forehead?
- Don't know who Charlie Kirk is? He runs so many ads on youtube with tpusa, that I'm surprised that there's people that don't know he exists atp.

Trump ordered all flags at half mast until Sunday. If I had a flagpole, I'd be racing to add an extension on to it, even if it looked like shit, to raise it higher.

Flying the flags at half mast for a bigot.
Trump's America.
It's like flying the flags at half-staff if Joe Rogan took too much ket this weekend.

You can’t convince me this and the trump shooter aren’t right wing gambits.

Will this one finally distract from the Epstein files?
- This is a safer way to look at the Epstein birthday book (PBS link) if you’re interested. Still a PDF. https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/09/Request-No.-1.pdf
Trump I can see because his pedo ties, but I have a feeling this one is a lefty.
- Easily could be someone Charlie fucked over. Could be a gambling debt.
- Based on what exactly?

What video card and monitor combo for 3400 fps?

Pair up a 5090 with a 640x480 monitor and open up your copy of Quake 1. Easy 3400 fps.
Don't give Elmo any ideas....

It's someone from the right. It's always someone from the right. Every single time

Popping off solo is an exclusively conservative extremist position

Leftist extremism is group based

The guy who shot up the Congressional baseball game was at least a socdem, wasn't he?
- Huh... Yeah, apparently. I guess I'll have to start saying every time instead of literally every time now
Couldn't the Unabomber be debatably extreme left? Not that it really matters, because going extreme enough in either direction ends up pretty close to the other--horseshoe theory or something.
- Unabomber was 30+ years ago, and he explicitly identifies the left with society's problems
  THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
  Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.
  Here is a nice summary of how the Unabomber (and apparently the author of the article) perceived the left:
  https://medium.com/@eric.johnson7654/i-agree-with-the-unabomber-about-leftists-4cc100896e64
- Horshoe theory is bullshit.
  Politics do not exist in a spectrum, that's insane. Extremism is one dimension of many that describe a political position

MAGA doesn’t learn.

They gonna learn the hard way.

Oh, I wonder how this meme will age.

Risky, but I took the shot.

I didnt like Kirk. I didn't agree with what he had to say. But by God he was a person, and the whole left vs right thing needs to fucking stop.

Killing is not the best outcome, but the left versus right thing should definitely happen. The right kills way more than the left could even think about killing. The right needs to stop being a thing.
I find it a little grotesque how thrilled people are about it, but no one is happy he's dead just because he's "right". They're happy because he was a monster that inflicted a lot of pain on other people intentionally. He was an absolutely piece of shit.
he was a person
He was also a prolific bigot spreading his bigotry to millions of gullible people.
Good riddance.