Q&A of the Day – Charlie Kirk & The History of Political Assassinations

We’ve literally had as many presidents assassinated as we have had influential non-office holders, which speaks to the company that Charlie Kirk keeps.

Episode Transcript

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of loss for words regarding the horrific assassination of Charlie
Kirk and what it means for our country and his
poor family, I thought I would ask for you to
put your perspective to what's happened. You've always had a
way of making sense of the aemingly senseless well, I
will do my best, and in trying it may potentially

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surprise you. In framing today's Q and A, you might
imagine that I intend to break down and say politically
motivated assassinations throughout our country's history, and I can do that. However,
I don't actually think that's where the proper answer or
answers lie, but I am going to start there. Politically

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motivated assassinations in the United States have stemmed from ideological conflicts,
policy disputes, racial tensions, or personal grievances tied to political actions,
and so in that regard, it is clear that the
assassination of Charlie Kirk is no different and our country's
two hundred and forty nine plus year history. Here is

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a breakout of politically motivated assassinations that we've suffered. At
the federal level. For presidents that have been assassinated, four
federal judges, eight diplomats, twelve members of Congress. At the

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state level, four governors have been assassinated, two state judges,
three cabinet officials, twenty five state legislators. And then at
the local level, there have been sixteen officials in various
capacities that have been assassinated, and then you get to

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non office holders that were targeted for political assassination, and
there are four. What's most notable about Charlie Kirk's assassination
from this perspective is how rare it has actually been.
By way of comparison, We've literally had as many presidents

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assassinated as we have had influential non office holders, which
speaks to the company that Charlie Kirk keeps. Let's take
a look at the other three. On June twelfth of
nineteen sixty three, Medgar Evers civil rights activists, murdered by

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a white supremacist. February twenty first, nineteen sixty five, Malcolm X,
black nationalist leader, murdered by members of the Nation of Islam.
April fourth, nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther King, junior civil

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rights leader murdered by segregationists. September tenth, twenty twenty five,
Charlie Kirk, faith based conservative activists murdered by that's to
be determined, right, So that is remarkable company that Charlie

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Kirk keeps. What we see of these four influential people
is that we've had two assassinations stemming from racism and
two effectively murdered over their faith. Now, at first glance,
it may seem that Kirk's assassination was purely a politically
motivated assassination, as in the way that we view traditional

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left right politics. I don't think that's the case at all.
I believe he was murdered for his faith. One of
the things that's kind of bugged me in this it's
an oversimplification to refer to Charlie Kirk as a conservative activist.
You see that everywhere, and it's accurate. I mean, yes,
he was that. However, his clear guiding compass wasn't the

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Republican Party, it wasn't the Conservative Party, it wasn't any
political party, and that party's agenda. Charlie Kirk's agenda was
God's agenda, And unlike other conservative activists, he always led
his messaging with that as the premise. And that's the

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key to what made him so special and his message
so special, especially to younger generations of kids that have
grown up in an era with faith having been taken
out of our public schools, and in an era of
rising violence likely resulting from non belief. Charlie was doing

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God's work in his own way. Challenging political correctness, bigotry
established political orthodoxy. On that no, consider this, of Jesus's
twelve disciples, only one John did not die a martyr,
factoring in Matthias, who replaced Judas. So I also believe
that's the company that Charlie keeps. You know, if he
hadn't gone around the country speaking of God's truths freely
and openly in places where God's word was and is

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needed most, he probably wanted to become the remarkable success
that he became, he'd probably still be alive today. And
so I mentioned at the onset my answer might surprise
you a bit. Hopefully it did, but in a constructive way.
On that note, consider this in the aftermath of Charlie
Kirk's assassination. Is why if Erica had one thing to

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say Psalm forty six y one. God is our refuge
and strength, a very present help in trouble. And in
the words of Charlie Kirk just four days before his murder,
Jesus defeated death so you can live. So the irony
is that in this technological age, Charlie Kirk successfully reached

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more people with God's message than the disciples did. Pretty
remarkable when you think about it, and that is likely
why he met a similar faith