Demagogues

“Every time there’s a killing, the Republicans say, ‘This is not the time to talk about gun safety.’ And yet we have to. … We don’t keep our children, our friends, our neighbors safe by just putting ordinary gun safety rules in place.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren

“Every single day, there are people in this building that continue to vote against doing anything. … We have to pass gun safety legislation and stop this.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dumb & Dumber

“The answer is not to allow [Charlie Kirk’s] hateful rhetoric to find the audience that it finds.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar

“There’s exploitation going on of [Kirk’s] death, and it’s happening on the Right and it’s absolutely disgraceful.” —former CNN anchor Jim Acosta

The BIG Lie

“Let’s be serious about where this violence is coming from. Of extremist violent attacks in America, extremist violent murders, 76% are from right-wing extremists. Four percent are from left-wing extremists.” —Rep. Seth Moulton

For the Record

“The point that I was trying to make is how peaceful the Left was right before he got shot. And that only makes sense if we stay peaceful.” —Hunter Kozak, the last man to ever try to change Charlie Kirk’s mind

“Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era.” —Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“There are crazy and violent people on both sides, but only one side has the mainstream media, politicians, Hollywood celebrities, and more fueling the madness and poisoning the minds of activists on the left.” —Erick Erickson

“Democrats have dehumanized Conservatives. It started with Obama calling us bitter Americans who cling to our guns and our religion. It was Hillary Clinton calling us an irredeemable basket of deplorables. It was Joe Biden calling us the dregs of society. It was Maxine Waters telling them to absolutely harass us in restaurants and grocery stores. They called us Nazis and Hitler. They called us homophobes and bigots and racists and xenophobes. I hold all them responsible. They all have blood on their hands today.” —Todd Starnes

“It doesn’t matter what Kirk’s politics are, what political causes he has supported, or which politicians he’s associated with. Defending, excusing, or justifying the murder of a fellow citizen — as some online freaks and cable news ghouls have done — for what he said or what he believed is the sign of a black heart and a disordered mind.” —Mark Antonio Wright

“If anyone … celebrated even a little bit at the news of this shooting, I would beg you to look in the mirror and to see if you can find a better angel in there somewhere.” —Utah Gov. Spencer Cox

“I don’t want to ‘stand in solidarity’ with the other side of the aisle. … I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.” —Virginia House Delegate Nick Freitas

“As a society, we have two choices. … Either we are going to inflict severe, merciless suffering on the criminals … or we’re going to allow severe, merciless suffering to be inflicted on the innocent. … One group or the other is going to be met with brutality and violence. … We are left with the two options I just outlined: severe, brutal, ugly punishment of the guilty, or severe, brutal, ugly punishment of the innocent. … To refuse to choose is to choose the latter.” —Matt Walsh

Insight

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens. Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.” —Charlie Kirk

“One of the reasons we’re living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian Nation, but we have a Christian form of government and they are incompatible. You cannot have Liberty if you do not have a Christian population.” —Charlie Kirk

And Last…

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ―author George R.R. Martin