On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during the kickoff of his Turning Point college tour which has brought many people together, a multitude to Christ, and has only strengthened the conservative movement in the United States. Sometimes, the most horrible circumstances are used for good.
Unsurprisingly, there have been many far-left lunatics and a continued effort by the media to label this conservative momentum as hypocritical. Some even say that conservatives do not care when it comes to other deaths such as school shootings or murders, saying that conservatives condemn violence when it benefits them, but ignore it otherwise.
This article will outline these accusations and explain the conservative argument against these claims, as well as why the conservative movement is justified in their anger of Charlie Kirk’s death.
In This Argument…
- An overview of the political left’s desperate attempt to trap conservatives
- The stark difference between Charlie Kirk’s assassination and other killings
- The conservative rebuttal to left-wing hypocrisy claims
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Claim: Conservatives Only Care About Violence When It’s Convenient
At first thought, it seems like common sense and a rational argument. It may seem that conservatives only care about Charlie Kirk’s assassination because their anger will benefit their base. But this quickly falls apart when thought about rationally. Let’s examine the left-wing argument:
The claim is that conservatives only care about the Charlie Kirk assassination because it is politically beneficial. They do not care about school shootings, they do not care about war, they do not care about murders that happen every day in America.
In fact, a shooting in Colorado occurred that same day and was buried beneath the news about Charlie Kirk. Why did conservatives not have the same or more outrage toward the school shooting as they did with the Charlie Kirk shooting?
These are the claims made by left-wing influencers and media outlets, trying to trap conservatives. Let’s examine why these claims quickly fall apart.
The Conservative Argument
School shootings, senseless murders, wars, are all terrible, and every human life is equal in the eyes of God. We are all made in God’s image, so the taking of another human life is absolutely unacceptable, because the killer is essentially saying that the victim is not valuable.
With this being said, there is a stark difference between the assassination of Charlie Kirk and other terrible incidents, like school shootings:
Political violence. Charlie Kirk wasn’t shot because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He wasn’t shot because he was involved in gang activity. He was martyred for his political beliefs and movement.
The motive of the shooter was clear from the context. This was political, not random. It’s clear what Charlie Kirk’s intention behind his Turning Point USA desk was. It was plainly seen and known exactly what Charlie Kirk’s purpose was in speaking at Utah Valley University. This was a political hit, which made this fundamentally different from senseless tragedies like school shootings, which are equally terrible, but not comparable in cause.
The shooter’s goal was simple. It was to shut down political speech, which is a First Amendment right for every citizen of the United States.
Charlie Kirk was made a martyr on that Wednesday for his faith in Christ, the conservative movement, and America as a whole.
The Bottom Line
- The stark difference between Charlie Kirk’s assassination and senseless murders or school shootings is political violence – the attempt to threaten free exchange of conservative ideas
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk during the kickoff of his Turning Point college tour has brought many people together, a multitude to Christ, and has only strengthened the conservative movement in the United States
- We know Charlie is with our savior