September 11, 2025

JIM TREACHER: Murder Is Wrong, Even If You’re Angry About Losing a Debate.

Charlie Kirk was murdered during a debate.

Here were his last words:

Questioner: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Too many.
Questioner: Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Then he was shot and killed. And the feds say the ammo the shooter left behind was engraved with “transgender ideology.” Quite a coincidence, huh?

As of this writing, we don’t know who did it or exactly why. But a lot of Kirk’s self-styled enemies sure are happy about it.

And zombie Wired magazine is quite cross that the right are calling out the people who went on a virtual wilding spree yesterday on social media:

The creator of Wired magazine, before he cashed in his chips and sold the magazine to the establishment left Conde Nast in 1998, was libertarian-leaning Louis Rossetto. As the late P.J. O’Rourke, an even more famous libertarian, said in a speech to the Cato Institute in 1993, “There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”

Did the people who went on a social media wilding spree last night not expect any consequences for their hateful rhetoric? Or as Varad Mehta tweeted today:

Earlier: “They wouldn’t be rushing to film themselves saying this if they didn’t believe there was a wide audience applauding them and cultural cachet to be had. That is the culture Democrats have fostered. Now they have to take responsibility and un-foster it. Not both sides. Them.”

Or as Mark Hemingway writes: The Left Has Never Been Held Accountable For Political Violence — And That Must Change.

UPDATE: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery:

Posted at 9:44 pm by Ed Driscoll