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Charlie Kirk · United States

Charlie Kirk shooting witness describes 'horrendous' scene

A witness to the Charlie Kirk shooting, Tom Johnson, was positioned directly in front of Kirk at the Utah Valley University Turning Point USA event with his wife when he heard a very loud crack. Johnson told that he recognized the noise and immediately knew it was a gunshot:
48% Center coverage: 320 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
46% Center coverage: 223 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Utah gov after Charlie Kirk shooting: ‘This is a political assassination’

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday was a “political assassination” and a “dark day” for both Utah and the U.S.
40% Center coverage: 208 sources
US Crime · Houston

Man charged with murder in Houston door-knock prank shooting of 11-year-old boy

A 42-year-old Texas man is facing a murder charge in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy after the victim and his friends banged on the suspect's door late Saturday night in what police described as a "ding-dong-ditch" prank that has been trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, authorities said.
68% Center coverage: 193 sources
Jimmy Kimmel · Denver

DC-Area Leaders Condemn Political Violence After Charlie Kirk Assassination

D.C.-area leaders on both sides of the political aisle decried the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot at an event in Utah Wednesday.
63% Center coverage: 146 sources
School Shooting · Colorado

Police Identify Desmond Holly in Colorado School Shooting, Probe Extremist Radicalization

Lockdown training helped limit casualties.
58% Center coverage: 125 sources
US Crime · United States

Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US government alleging negligence

69% Center coverage: 113 sources
Tyler Robinson · Utah

Cox on Kirk Suspect Coming From Conservative Home: ‘His Ideology Was Very Different than His Family’

66% Center coverage: 106 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Washington Post columnist says she was fired over Charlie Kirk posts

Columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired by The Washington Post last week over a series of social media posts about gun control and race in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “As a columnist, I used my voice to defend freedom and democracy, challenge power and reflect on culture and politics with honesty and conviction,” Attiah wrote in a post on Substack published Monday. “Now, I am the one being silenced — for doing my job.”
48% Right coverage: 73 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Utah college where Charlie Kirk was killed is a lesser-known school but the state’s largest

The Utah college where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday is the state’s largest public university after years of rapid enrollment growth, but is lesser known than other colleges in the state. Utah Valley University was founded under a different name in 1941 as a vocational school focused on providing war production training. It didn’t begin offering four-year degrees until the 1990s, a move that fueled a fivefold increase in enrollment over the next three decades. It now has nearly 47,000 students, according to the university website.
59% Center coverage: 70 sources
Tim Walz · Minneapolis

Gov. Tim Walz to Call Special Session on Gun Laws After Minneapolis School Shooting

52% Center coverage: 69 sources
Influencers · United States

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is an Attack on the Very Right to Free Speech

America has lost more than a man this week. We lost a voice that embodied one of the most quintessentially American acts imaginable: peacefully debating ideas in the public square. Charlie Kirk was not engaged in violence. He was not plotting destruction. He was doing something that has been at the very heart of our…
41% Center coverage: 64 sources
School Shooting · Denver

Report says school shooting suspect was fascinated with mass shootings and expressed neo-Nazi views

A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts. Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism said in a report.
56% Center coverage: 61 sources
Gun Laws · United States

Trump DOJ is reportedly looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
54% Right coverage: 57 sources
Florida Politics · Florida

Florida Appeals Court Strikes Down Ban on Openly Carrying Guns

56% Center coverage: 45 sources
Gun Violence & Control · Minneapolis

Minneapolis suburb’s candidates campaign amid fear and violence after political assassinations

54% Left coverage: 41 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Kids and Current Events: How to Help Them Deal with What They See Around Them

In hardly any time at all, the footage of the horrifying moment when a bullet hit conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the neck cascaded across the internet.Whether seeing it inadvertently or seeking it out, onlookers far from the crowd at a Utah college could be exposed to disturbingly close and potentially bloody glimpses of his shooting and the resulting chaos. It's the product of a digital-first world where the presence of smartphones and s…
57% Center coverage: 39 sources
NRA · United States

NRA says it opposes idea of banning transgender Americans from owning guns

44% Center coverage: 39 sources
Gun Control · Brooklyn Park

Special Election for Slain Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman’s Seat Comes Amid New Fears of Political Violence

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — A special election in Minnesota on Tuesday will determine who will fill the seat of the late Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman, just over three months after she and her husband were fatally shot in what Gov. Tim Walz at the time called “a politically motivated assassination” and less than a week after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk’s death is the latest instance of political violen…
39% Center coverage: 38 sources
Maryland Politics · Maryland

Maryland Leaders Tell Trump They Don’t Need the National Guard to Curb Gun Violence

61% Center coverage: 31 sources
Tyler Robinson · United States

Alleged assassin wrote that he had opportunity to take out Kirk: FBI director

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau was able to reconstruct a note from Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said he planned to take him out. Patel, during a Monday morning appearance on “Fox and Friends,” summarized the content of the note.
57% Right coverage: 30 sources
US Immigration · United States

After rescinding protections, ICE is moving to deport more immigrants who were victims of crime

Days after an assailant’s bullet tore through two of his limbs, Felipe de Jesus Hernandez Marcelo hobbled out of the hospital on crutches. Hernandez had nearly died in the early morning of June 21 when, police say, a troubled young man shot him during an attempted robbery in Muscatine, Iowa. A quick emergency response saved his life, but the shooting left the 28-year-old father wounded where a bullet traveled through his arm and leg.
57% Center coverage: 28 sources
College Football · Tallahassee

FSU freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard is in intensive care after shooting, school says

62% Center coverage: 26 sources
Florida Politics · Florida

Florida Says Ban on Openly Carrying Guns Is Invalid After Court Ruling

Members of law enforcement in Florida should no longer arrest or prosecute people for openly carrying firearms in public places, the state attorney general, James Uthmeier, said on Monday, citing a state appeals court ruling last week that found a decades-old ban to be unconstitutional.
54% Center coverage: 24 sources
US Crime · Washington

Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a 13-year-old who appeared to idolize mass shooters

A 13-year-old boy who police said appeared to be fixated on school shooters was arrested on charges of unlawful firearms possession and making a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill and seized 23 guns and ammunition from his home.
56% Center coverage: 23 sources
NDP · Canada

NDP pitches tighter arms controls, citing U.S. loophole for arms exports to Israel

77% Left coverage: 22 sources
Influencers · United States

In America, Kirk's Supporters Still Love Guns, Despite His Violent Death

Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck.
Coverage: 20 sources
Gun Laws · Tennessee

Tennessee Appeals Ruling Against 2 Gun Laws, Saying It Caused ‘Unnecessary Confusion and Risk’

45% Center coverage: 20 sources
New Jersey Politics · New Jersey

Appeals court upholds New Jersey’s ban on carrying firearms in sensitive places

53% Left coverage: 17 sources
Utah Politics · Utah

Utah, where Charlie Kirk was killed, has strong pro-gun laws

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in a state that has permissive gun laws and allows firearms to be concealed or openly carried without a permit in most instances, experts said.
53% Left coverage: 15 sources
US Politics · United States

27 States Ask Supreme Court to Review Gun Magazine Ban

Twenty-seven states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Washington state law that prohibits the sale and possession of firearm magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
93% Right coverage: 14 sources
Washington State Politics · Washington

WA elected officials react to fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk

Washington state officials on the right and left condemned political violence Wednesday following the fatal shooting of 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah.
57% Center coverage: 14 sources
Polls · United States

Minnesota State Fair Poll Shows 79% Support Capitol Gun Ban and Other Key Issues

57% Right coverage: 14 sources
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · United States

Ocasio-Cortez on Kirk assassination: ‘Are we going to do something?’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk “horrific” and urged Congress to take action on gun violence legislation.
69% Right coverage: 13 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

US Congresswoman Condemns Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Says ‘Violence Has No Place in the Country’

Investigators searching for the man who killed right-wing activist Charlie Kirk appealed for the public's help Thursday, with no one in custody more than a day after a murder that has rocked America's fractious politics.
54% Center coverage: 11 sources
Gun Violence · United States

Gun Stocks Surged After Charlie Kirk's Killing

50% Left coverage: 8 sources
Nancy Mace · United States

Mace says she’ll start carrying a gun where allowed after Kirk shooting

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R) said she would begin carrying a gun when permitted after the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
49% Center coverage: 8 sources
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · United States

DHS Says ICE Does Not Target Schools

The Department of Homeland Security stressed in a Tuesday memo that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not target or raid schools.
75% Right coverage: 8 sources
Delaware Politics · Delaware

Delaware judge finds law prohibiting gun purchases by people under age 21 is unconstitutional

A judge has ruled that a Delaware law tightening gun regulations for residents under the age of 21 violates the state Constitution.
63% Left coverage: 8 sources
Climate Change · Boston

Explainer: Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues

As one of the most influential right-wing activists in the United States, Charlie Kirk shaped much of the hard-right youth movement on key political issues....
Coverage: 7 sources
Brandon Johnson · Chicago

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blames city’s violence problem on ‘red states’

As mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson oversees the city in the country with the highest number of homicides each year.Despite this, Johnson has rejected the Trump administration's offer to deploy the National Guard to his city to help with Chicago's crime problem. Moreover, he has been outright critical of such overtures, likening them to an authoritarian takeover. On Tuesday, he blamed the city’s problem on so-called “red states,” claiming it was their supposedly loose gun laws that were contributing to Chicago’s violence.
86% Right coverage: 7 sources
Minnesota Politics · Minnesota

Rochester students stage walk out in protest of gun violence

Mayo High School students joined a national initiative by walking out of school midday Friday, Sept. 5, in protest of gun violence.
42% Center coverage: 7 sources
US Crime · Minnesota

Minneapolis Shooter Robin Westman’s ‘Furry’ Girlfriend ID’d

100% Right coverage: 6 sources
Jimmy Fallon · United States

Democrats Unveil True Intentions With Charlie Kirk Gun-Control Argument

Leave it to the Democrat party to turn a national tragedy into their own vehicle to push their weird, faux-utopian gun policies.Conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shocking assassination showed us that there are still plenty of good people in this world on both sides of the aisle, as the shooting was almost universally condemned by prominent figures on both the right and the left.Unfortunately, plenty of Democrat politicians still used Kirk's d…
100% Right coverage: 5 sources
Charlie Kirk · United States

Right adopts take-no-prisoners approach to ‘radical left’ after Charlie Kirk killing

Coverage: 2 sources
Gun Control · Texas

Dem. Congressional Candidate Pushes Gun Control in Charlie Kirk's Name

Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin (D) pledges to introduce gun control in Charlie Kirk's name if elected to serve in Congress.  The post Democrat Congressional Candidate Pledges Gun Control in Charlie Kirk’s Name appeared first on Breitbart.
100% Right coverage: 1 sources
Gun Violence · West Berlin

How being Black in America almost killed me

When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America, soon became more personal than he’d planned. He realized he needed to …
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
Gun Violence · Chicago

Dick Durbin Joins Chorus of Pro-Criminal Dems Blaming Law-Abiding Red States for Blue City Gun Violence

Dick Durbin blames red states for gun violence in Chicago amidst DNC's pro-criminal narrative.
100% Right coverage: 1 sources

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