The killing of Charlie Kirk continues to have massive effects nationwide. We’ll talk about that more in a later commentary.

For now, consider this. Many people are highly negative towards Mr. Kirk. And vicious towards those who are alarmed and saddened over his killing. One tactic is to compare the response to Kirk’s death to other incidents in recent days and weeks. They claim that those upset over Charlie Kirk’s death (whom they label as “rightists:” not “Progressive” nor “liberal”) are hypocritical – even racist. Why? Because they are making much ado about Mr. Kirk’s killing, but supposedly have not over the death of others.

(Oddly enough, the brutal killing of a young Ukrainian immigrant is not mentioned by these critics. Many on the “left” also moaned over the negative response to the woman’s killer. Why? Perhaps because the narrative is wrong for their purposes.)

But the truth? There has been as much (or more) outcry, but the talking heads are willing to pretend that is not the case.

While the outcry over Kirk’s death is far greater than the reaction to the stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska (and has overshadowed it), the shocking nature of the deed, the failure of other people to come to her aid, and other matters related to it did result in a significant response. Even though at least may on the Woke side seemed to dismss it. Ask them, why are they not repeating the screams of outrage about the death of George Floyd? Is it antipathy to cops, or favoring of people based on skin color?

Leaving aside knife violence for gun violence: Those condemning the attitude of The Donald, Vance, and many others (great and small) about the Utah assassination seem quick to point out hypocrisy and a lack of concern over multiple gun deaths in recent days elsewhere. Such as the killings on 27 August at the Catholic church school in Minnesota, where two children died. Or the shooting the same day as Kirk was killed in Evergreen, Colorado, where a would-be killer apparently fired dozens of shots and wounded two before turning his gun on himself and dying.

Indeed, some who are angry with the reaction to Kirk’s assassination have gone to the extent of exaggerating the other incidents. We here at TPOL read several postings that three people died in Evergreen, trying to exaggerate the contrast.

Many more claimed that Kirk deserved what he got because he had advocated so much for the right to keep and bear arms. And made false claims about what Kirk had said in support of the Second Amendment: taking things out of context and condemning him for daring to buck the trends of his generation. The sheer volume of the commentary (again, from high and low) clearly happy that Kirk is dead is quite surprising. Even if the reason they are so prominent is because in our modern media environment, more and more publicity is made of such postings and statements.

We realize we should expect that kind of exaggeration and false claims. But it still bothers us. Especially since we understand the objective of such pushing against Kirk and those like him.

Again, we point out the difference in reaction from the various poles of opinion (and anger). And see a correlation not just with antipathy towards cops and those who disagree with their political position, but more.

In particular, teachers unions are promoting gun control.. again. Randi Weingarten (American Federation of Teachers president) recently said, “There are more guns on the streets than we have people. And the principal cause of death for kids is these kind of killings,” referring to the school attacks. “We have to fight for a nationwide assault weapons ban. Part of that fight is to create a culture that human life means more than a gun culture.” Kirk was and is condemned for what he is claimed to have said, that the Second Amendment is more important than the deaths of a few schoolchildren. (We don’t think he did, but it is a common point of argument for all sides.)

We at TPOL disagree. Americans use a firearm to stop a lethal assault (preventing or reducing great bodily injury) almost three million times a year. Those often involve saving the lives of innocent children. Sadly, we can’t and don’t save them all. But we argue – and data backs us up – that far more children’s lives are saved than lost by our “gun culture.” Do we not need a culture where our children’s lives are more important than a New York Billionaire’s campaign donations?

Trump is condemned as being hypocritical for ordering flags flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirt. “Why didn’t he do that for the assassination of two Minnesota legislators by a man claiming to be a cop?” All of these, of course, are to them more and more reason to disarm all Americans who are not cops or the bodyguards of the elite. Or so they are arguing.

Every killing is a tragedy – even those where the choice is to kill someone who will otherwise kill or maim an innocent person. Especially a child. But as Mr. Kirk and many others have pointed out, the killing, the harming of children, does not stop because guns are banned. The primice is wrong, and so the conclusion is wrong.

Pray and work to convince the Woke, the Regressives, the social justice warrior wake up to the truth, see the injustice of a tyrannical society where everyone is a slave to politicians, bureaucrats, and jack-booted thugs. Where we progress towards more liberty, and prosperity, and peace, not slide back into an authoritarian system with an elite lording it over everyone else.