Utah Governor Laments He Can’t Blame an Immigrant for Kirk’s Death

Welcome to Utah; it's the new Florida!

Patel right behind him like, "Man I wish it wasn't one of us too."

I honestly thought I was in /c/TheOnion

“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”

Now that you’ve had to admit, “Hey, we do do that here” what are you doing with that? Have you experienced any epiphanies?

Honestly, if he'd just left it at "another state," I wouldn't even be mad. I totally get wanting the degree of separation. But adding "another country" absolutely betrays his true thoughts. What a gross thing to admit.
Someone I could hate and justify that hatred against the Left…
The quote makes it seem a lot more understandable than the title makes it out to be imo
- TBH - that’s exactly why I added the quote when I posted the article. But I still think it’s fucked up with the full context; just not as fucked up.
How ugly that is to admit it out loud. What a fucking racist
Hell no. Their magic underwear keeps that from happening.
- And throat slit vow
What a fucking joke of a human
- hes spencer cox, what you expect, hes the one that allowed GUNS ON CAMPUS in the first place.
any epiphanies
Clearly, we must thoughts and prayers even harder.
- All these people keep on praying, but the whole time they forgot to think
- sounds like tiffany the expensive jewelry chain.

Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”

In 2023 over 15,000 people were murdered with guns in the United States. You definitely do that there. You know you do. You're very good at it, and you refuse to do anything about it. You have no compassion for the other victims, so to cry about how one of your own was at the receiving end is political theatre.

How many of those deaths are gang on gang violence?
In 2023, the majority of U.S. gun deaths were suicides (58%) and homicides (38%).
That's pretty wild. But with over 400,000,000 guns in the USA it's not going to stop anybody.
- Not sure if this is serious or a bit. These were Kirk's last words more or less
He was talking specifically about Utah when he said "here". He even mentioned that the state was leading the nation in charitable donations. There was zero ambiguity.
- The bulk of those "Charitable" contributions are "voluntary" contributions to the mormon church. Members must contribute 10% of their income plus a little extra just because in order to hold positions of leadership in the church, get married attend cult weddings and most importantly not go to hell.
  The mormon church uses less than 1% of their funds for humanitarian needs. The other 99% is used to expand the hundreds of billions in hoarded wealth.
- The "charitable donations" are the community's socially required tithes to the Mormon church.
  Not exactly the same as everywhere else.

I would've sworn this was an Onion headline. What an absolutely deranged piece of shit.

It would have been a perfectly acceptable thing to say (in my opinion) if he didn't follow up by saying the suspected shooter certainly appears to be one of them.
The original statement makes sense that the person who's job is to govern an area hoped it wasnt one of the people he represented.
Then when he made the second comment, it all fell apart because being one of them apparently meant they could still be a Utah resident. So he was only representing a subset of the Utah population, and therefore breaking his Oath of office.
- one of them
  This phrase appears to be written by the author of this article to refer to residents of Utah. It's not part of the quote of what the governor said.
What's the opposite of "eating the onion?" Barfing it up?
- Smelling rotten onion?

Cox is a fucking clown, a shameful excuse of a governor.

I grew up here, in the Mormon church, too (out for several years now). These are not the principles I was taught. This goes against every single thing that Jesus taught. Someone using their position of authority to parrot "god" is exactly the kind of person Jesus would have thrown out of his temple.

Someone using their position of authority to parrot "god" is exactly the kind of person that created Mormonism. The LDS church was literally born from this exact sort of thing.
You're absolutely right, it goes completely against everything the Bible tries to teach, but somehow I don't think that's going to be a very big deal to them.
- Yep, 100%. The entire Smith family were well-known con artists.

No scapegoat for you. Maybe try facing your moral and policy failures this time? No? Ok, keep praying to god. Maybe next time he'll help you out with a black trans muslim shooter instead of yet another young white conservative dude.

i like how cox is tryting to avoid blaming the shooter , because hes a white straight ultra right male. cant be hurting a straight white maile voting base.

bullet casings with the phrases, “Hey fascists! Catch!” with an up arrow, a right arrow and three down arrows,

Boy was trying to call in a 500kg on the target.

I now say "calling a Charlie" in Helldivers when I need a 500kg. Or replace Charlie with Kirk, or a combination of the 2.
- 500 kirkagram

Weren't we all hoping the same thing, that the shooter wouldn't turn out to be a member of whatever group we identify as? I know I was.

Idk, I’m waiting for the left side to start fighting back. The right keeps bullying us.
Yes, but the difference is that he's the governor of the state of Utah. He's supposed to represent all the residents of his state. By choosing a side he alienates a significant portion of his populace for no apparent political gain or reason.

He means Mormons.

Unfortunately, they have a storied history of murder and violence.
- Don't forget Mountain Meadows, or the time they (probably) had the governor of Missouri assassinated, or the time they were ABSOLUTELY PLANNING to throw down with the Grand Army of the Republic before someone realized the Army had more men and materiel to prosecute a war with.

How do these clowns manage to put their shoes on?

What do you mean? That's tradwife duties.

Not exactly, he lamented that he couldn't blame anybody not from Utah.

no... he laments he can't blame a nonmormon.

Lol rolled the dice, came up snake eyes again.

The Right is the party of murder.

His talk was pretty decent except for this bizarre thing which is wierder the longer you think about it. I mean I sorta get it but man.

It's pretty normal for a governor to say they wishes an act of terror hadn't been committed by somebody living in their state. I think this makes us look shitty.
- I have never heard a govenor express such sentiments. They often express the act had not happened in their state. Are you being sarcastic?

Just good ol honest home grown terror.

So, who ARE the terrorists?