It turns out that the party which decries “thoughts and prayers” for not being enough in the wake of a shooting won’t even pray at all when it’s a conservative that gets shot.
On Wednesday afternoon, as you’ve doubtlessly heard by now, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. He was 31.
As of 8:00 p.m. Eastern, it’s unclear what the motive of the shooter is, if anything.
What is clear, unfortunately, is that the left seems determined to do as little as possible to address the likely root cause of this — febrile political rhetoric — while still admitting that killing people for their political views is abhorrent.
Take what happened on the floor of the House of Representatives when a moment of silence was offered for Kirk.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, stood and asked for a moment of prayer aloud.
“I believe that silent prayers get silent results,” Boebert said. “Is there someone who could lead us in a moment of prayer aloud for Charlie and his family?”
Shouting then broke out amid groans of “no” from the Democrat side. Another lawmaker, unnamed in media reports, also objected; according to The Hill, that lawmaker “shouted something about children.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, then shouted back, causing a ruckus to break loose and prompting House Speaker Mike Johnson to bang his gavel.
Is political rhetoric responsible for Charlie Kirk’s assassination?
“The House will be in order,” Johnson shouted.
WATCH: Disgusting democrats in Congress objected to a prayer for Charlie Kirk after his brutal assassination.
I wonder who is yelling at the Speaker? It’s a woman. Any guesses? pic.twitter.com/oqddiJfCkv
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The House incident was indicative of the Democrats’ mood on Wednesday afternoon after news of Kirk’s assassination broke.
They were upset, kinda. If you forced them to be. Thoughts and secular prayers, but nothing serious.
There was a general decrying of “political violence” by people who had been busy calling President Donald Trump and his supporters threats to democracy up until the moment it happened. After the shooting, there were outlets which would mention the horror of a person being shot for expressing his political beliefs, while saying out of the other side of their mouths that he was a “divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rod, whatever term you want to use.” (MSNBC.)
Before Johnson took the floor on Tuesday, he spoke with reporters about what had happened — and his words would ring truer once he got out there.
“This is detestable what’s happened. Political violence has become all too common in American society, and this is not who we are. It violates core principles of our country, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our civil society, our American way of life, and it must stop,” Johnson told reporters.
“We need every political figure, we need everyone who has a platform to say this loudly and clearly. We can settle disagreements and disputes in a civil manner, and political violence must be called out and has to stop.”
The left believes this — for today, albeit as quietly as possible. The same way they believed this when no less than two assassination attempts were carried out on Donald Trump’s life in 2024.
This time, one of America’s most prominent conservative activists was shot and killed on camera, and the left can’t even bring itself to say a prayer to stop it. In fact, they shout “no” when someone offers it.
Let this be a lesson for America when it comes to how seriously the Democratic Party takes that “political violence” they seem to care so deeply about for the moment.
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