Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO and the widow of conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, rejected the argument that “gun violence” was the underlying issue that led to her husband’s assassination. It’s “not a gun problem,” she said, adding that America is facing “a deeply human” and “soul” problem.
While closing out the New York Times‘ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Erika Kirk sat down with journalist Andrew Sorkin, who said, “I’m curious how you think, today, about gun violence in America, given what happened” to her husband.
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“It’s a thoughtful question, and I wouldn’t wish upon anyone what I have been through, and I support the Second Amendment, as well. I do,” Erika Kirk said. “But there’s a bigger and much deeper conversation to all of that.”
“And it’s interesting, because if you go on a campus and you ask a counselor, ‘What is the number one or number two thing that these students are facing?’ They will always say, ‘Mental health, anxiety, depression.’ Those are usually the top three,” the widow added.
Kirk went on to say that “what Charlie knew — and he was trying to explain to students on campus — was that you have to understand that brain health is so important.”
“How you eat, how you take care of yourself, how you nourish yourself, how you rest,” the Turning Point USA CEO added. “And, to him, it was much more deeper and intricate.”
“What I’ve realized through all of this is that you can have individuals that will always resort to violence,” Mrs. Erika Kirk pointed out.
“And what I’m afraid of, is that we are living in a day and age where they think violence is the solution to them not wanting to hear a different point of view,” she added.
“That’s not a gun problem. That’s that’s a deeply human problem. That is a soul problem. That is a mental, that is a very deeper issue,” Mrs. Erika Kirk asserted.
Notably, the left appears to be engaging in a type of cognitive dissonance since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, refusing to consider the notion that someone who shares their political views has carried out such horrific violence after years of them smearing and falsely labeling Kirk “fascist” and “Nazi.”
Following Kirk’s assassination, leftists — who react to tragedy by oversimplifying it as mere “gun violence” as a means for targeting an unalienable right — celebrated a murder being carried out with a firearm, simply due to the victim having political views that differed from their own.
This served as a major mask-off and watershed moment in which the public has been able to see firsthand the shocking depravity and degradation of society.
Ironically, the examples from teachers celebrating Kirk’s assassination have highlighted the very issue the Turning Point USA founder spent years exposing — the left-wing extremism that students are exposed to at all levels of the American education system.
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on Facebook and X at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.
