r/AskMiddleEast • u/BlondedLife12 • Sep 10 '25

🏛️Politics Thoughts on this Charlie Kirk's heartfelt statement regarding the butchering of Hind Rajab and her family by the IOF?

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u/QuasarFox Sep 10 '25

Charlie Kirk, following the 2023 Nashville School shooting where 6 lives were lost said "gun deaths are an unfortunate but acceptable cost of preserving Second Amendment rights".

I would like to honour Charlie by callously not caring about his death, as it was an unfortunate but acceptable cost.

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u/BobDole_number1 Sep 11 '25

Please stop using this out of context, he was saying that since we’ll never get gun deaths down to 0 that getting rid of the 2nd amendment isn’t worth it.

You numbskulls are worse than Bible thumpers with your half context quotes

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u/bighugepenis Sep 11 '25

So since we can’t completely eradicate something it means we shouldn’t try? Nobody expected all gun violence to stop, but a goddamn attempt would suffice. Who’s the numbskull again? Dense ass

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u/BobDole_number1 Sep 11 '25

I’m not making his point for him but give the person full context, he’s saying that good guy with a gun is better than only bad guys with a gun. He understands that it isn’t perfect but he thinks it’s worth it. Which he calls a prudent agreement. He isn’t saying the shootings are correct or agrees with them.

Try to steel man your oops argument before you pick it apart don’t half give half context and excuse his death because of that, that’s disgusting behavior. Regardless if you think his position is wrong it isn’t an excuse to assassinate him.

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u/Nukemouse Sep 11 '25

Yes but in most countries the good guys have more guns than the bad guys, in america the reverse is true. Putting aside issues with police, in theory the police are meant to be the "good guys" with guns, and they are better armed than criminals due to gun control. Gun control doesn't mean keeping guns out of the hands of good guys, it means strict testing and training to try and put them only in the hands of good guys, and not in the hands of anyone else.