Charlie Kirk's Past Quote About Gun Deaths & Second Amendment Rights Resurfaces After Tragic Shooting

A past quote from Charlie Kirk has resurfaced after the political commentator was tragically shot.

The 31-year-old Turning Point USA leader was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10) when he was shot in the neck.

A couple years ago, Charlie commented on “some gun deaths” being okay to protect second amendment rights.

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“I think it’s worth it. 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’s a prudent deal. It is rational,” he said on stage at a Turning Point USA Faith event in April 2023, via Media Matters. “Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete different universe. So then how do you reduce? Very simple… I don’t know. How did we stop shooting at baseball games? ‘Cause we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That’s why.”

Prior to saying that, he said we have to be honest and real with the population, and mentioned how it’s unrealistic to completely wipe away gun violence, or driving accidents as another example.

“We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”

Charlie is now reportedly in critical condition at a local hospital, with a Turning Point USA worker saying, “It doesn’t look good.”

It was previously reported that a suspect was in custody, but that is no longer the case.

This story is continuing to develop and we will bring you more details as they become available.