Tonight, I’m angry. And incredibly sad.
Charlie Kirk has been shot. Not shouted down, not argued against, not reasoned with – shot. A husband, a father, a Christian, and the founder of Turning Point USA – an organisation dedicated to challenging groupthink and encouraging young Americans to think freely. And for this, he was struck by the assassin’s veto. This is not protest. This is not ‘resistance.’ This is tyranny.
The left forever bray about ‘hate speech.’ But tell me – what is more hateful than silencing a man with a gun? Milton warned that liberty is the right to ‘argue freely according to conscience.’ Today liberty lies bleeding in Utah, and its enemies dance upon the wound.
I’m furious. Furious not just at the coward who pulled the trigger, but at the culture that made this possible: the culture that censors in the name of tolerance, that cancels under the banner of compassion, that preaches inclusivity while excluding dissent. The gunman merely did in flesh what his comrades have long done in spirit.
And let’s not fool ourselves here in Britain. The same poison brews on our soil. The same zealots who scream for ‘safe spaces’ while seeking to muzzle dissent are walking among us too. They may not have pulled the trigger, but their ideology loads the chamber – every time they call for bans, de-platformings, and ‘no-platform’ verdicts. The slow erosion of speech is the prelude to violence. The cancel culture we endure here is no different in spirit from the censor’s bullet abroad.
Let us also remember: Kirk’s organisation was not about silencing others, but about opening debate, about engaging students who had been told to think only one way. For that, he was despised. It’s the oldest story of civilisation: Socrates condemned for asking questions, Cicero murdered for defending the republic, and now a man shot for daring to speak freely at a university – the very place supposedly devoted to inquiry.
And yet – let them hear this: if they thought a bullet could silence a voice, they’ll find it has only multiplied. For every shot fired at truth, ten thousand tongues must rise. Let us rage, yes – but let’s also speak, write, resist. For silence now would be complicity.
Freedom has been shot at. In America, in Britain, across the West. We must not miss our chance to defend it.
For as it is written: ‘The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not’ (John 1:5).
Please pray for Charlie and his family.
Charles James Kirk (October 14, 1993 – September 10, 2025)
Wording 
I just saw the headlines when I got home. I couldn’t believe it.
I haven’t seen the headlines from the mainstream media, and I’m wondering what they’re slant will be. I don’t know if I even want to venture into the snakepit to find out.
I felt the same shock when the news broke – though sadly, I wasn’t surprised at how quickly silence or spin crept in. The so-called mainstream media have a talent for either soft-pedalling what doesn’t suit their narrative, or twisting it into some grotesque morality play of their own design. A man is gunned down for speaking freely, yet I expect we’ll be treated to a thousand euphemisms and a convenient absence of outrage.
It’s telling that the “snakepit,” as you rightly call it, feels more like a theatre of distortion than a place to gather truth. But then, that’s why we must speak here, and keep speaking – because if we leave the telling of events to those who despise free thought, then the very meaning of what’s happened will be buried under their headlines.
I just saw an unconfirmed update that Kirk died from his wound and that the shooter is NOT in custody. I’m hoping for some firm details by tomorrow morning (late morning for you).
Yes, I heard an unconfirmed report too. I’m so sad about this. I’ll keep popping in to X through the rest of the evening to look for updates.
I just saw Turning Point UK say “he’s gone”. Bloody hell.
It’s definite now. Trump just posted on Truth Social that he is gone.