/ Blog / / Blog /Just two years ago, Charlie Kirk said, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of—unfortunately—some* gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
Today, someone cashed the very check he wrote.
I see a lot of people say [political] violence is never okay when stuff like this happens.
So just to clear things up, if you support punching nazis, or would go back in time to kill Hitler, then you know political violence is sometimes okay.
That doesn’t mean you think it’s okay all the time or that it’s the solution for every political conflict. It just means that there is a line that can be crossed where you’re okay with it to save people from more violence and oppression.
This is the reality of flipping the trolley switch. This is what that looks like. This is what that problem is all about. In that exercise, if you choose to actively flip the switch that kills one person instead of five, that illustrates the level of comfort you have in choosing to be an active participant in killing one person to save others.
Charlie Kirk may never have killed anyone directly, but he openly, quite literally attempted to rationalize the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
* In 2023, the year he made this statement, “some gun deaths” amounted to 46,728 people in the United States.