The Pink Tax Return — Here’s Why Charlie Kirk’s Pro-Gun Logic Has Deadly Consequences
New York, New York — September 13, 2025
Here’s the take on Charlie Kirk you’re not allowed to say out loud.
Charlie Kirk you said it best “ I think it’s worth having 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.”
When a public figure with power and a platform talks about “acceptable” deaths, they are really saying, as long as it’s not me, my friends, or my family, it’s fine. But violence doesn’t follow those neat boundaries. It doesn’t ask if you’re innocent, peaceful, or simply trying to live.
I don’t care that a gun rights activist was shot. I just don’t. I will not celebrate, but I will not cry. When a public figure becomes the casualty of the system they defended, their death is less a tragedy of irony than a public display of what that system truly costs.
If anyone should be considered “collateral,” it should not be the innocent — it should be the powerful, the politicians, the people who actively defend and perpetuate a violent system. I’m not saying they should be harmed, I’m just exposing the hypocrisy.
Ordinary people — children in schools, shoppers at the grocery store, concertgoers — are the “collateral” Charlie Kirk accepts to preserve the Second Amendment. In his framework, their lives are the “cost” of freedom, and that’s the the cruel paradox — he turned everyday people into collateral, only to find himself swallowed by the same logic
In the scale of global horrors, Kirk barely registers. What I see is a man who glorifies violence facing its consequences. On the very same day, a small town faced its own tragedy — a school shooting overshadowed entirely by the coverage of Kirk’s death.
The media has long stopped centering victims of school shootings; with their frequency, they barely make headlines anymore. That happened today in Evergreen, Colorado. If anything, those children should be the reason this country changes its gun laws. But because their tragedy isn’t loud enough, I can only hope the death of a politician — with a fanbase big enough to shake the system — forces the reckoning those kids long deserved.
This tragedy does not diminish the family’s right to grieve. I hope they find peace and privacy away from the cameras, and the space to mourn without intrusion. Whatever his politics, he was a man loved deeply by those closest to him, and they deserve nothing less than grace in their grief.
Let this be the country’s pivot. We’ve watched a gun-rights activist fall to the very violence he defended. If America can’t admit the cost is too high now, when will we? This is the moment to end the sacrifices.
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