{"id":15705,"date":"2025-09-17T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:39:48","slug":"930-the-charlie-kirk-turning-point-from-ballots-to-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/15705","title":{"rendered":"930 &#8211; The Charlie Kirk turning point\u2014from ballots to bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/930-CharlieKirksTurningPoint-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15706\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20250917-justRIGHT-930-TheCharlieKirkTurningPoint-FromBallotsToBullets.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element<\/audio><br \/>\n<strong>Last week&#8217;s assassination of Charlie Kirk sent a shock wave across the world that exposed the political polarities of Left and Right on a scale never before experienced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An American political activist on the Right, Kirk founded the conservative organization <strong>Turning Point USA<\/strong> and was its executive director until his untimely demise on the Utah Valley University campus on September 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While the tragedy of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s murder is its own horror story, a greater horror story has been the reaction of those on the Left who have celebrated his murder with calls for even more murders, including those of Kirk&#8217;s wife and children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has presented those on the Right with a moral dilemma:  how to oppose the Left without having to resort to violence.  Unlike the Right, the Left does not honor the ballot box; it worships the bullet.                 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Charlie Kirk himself explained:  &#8220;At the core of the Left are very violent people.  They always have been.  They can&#8217;t debate; they can&#8217;t have conversations.  So they resort to violent tactics because they can&#8217;t beat us.  This is not a joke; this is who these people are.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, millions on the Right will recover from their shock and grief caused by the unjust and immoral act of violence that resulted in Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope that what they choose to do next will live up to Charlie Kirk&#8217;s legacy in a way that will dramatically accelerate and expand his Turning Point mission.  Perhaps then it can be said that something good will have emerged from this horrific act.  <\/p>\n<p>But silver linings aside, there&#8217;s simply nothing about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s absence that could ever be considered Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/930-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/930-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser does not support the audio element Last week&#8217;s assassination of Charlie Kirk sent a shock wave across the world that exposed the political polarities of Left and Right on a scale never before experienced. 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