"Some 3,000 people gathered Wednesday morning at Utah Valley University to hear the truths of Charlie Kirk, an ultraconservative, evangelical 31-year-old and an influential debater. The MAGA activist was kicking off his new tour of higher education institutions to debate anyone under the slogan Prove me wrong. What the audience actually witnessed in the city of Orem was a horrific political assassination that has shaken the nerves of American society, which is once again seeing political violence incarnated in its most extreme form: gun violence."
"He became one of the most followed provocateurs in the MAGA world, defending the traditional role of women, completely rejecting abortion, defending the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms), and opposing reforms favoring minorities. Charlie Kirk (2023): "I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.""
About 3,000 people gathered at Utah Valley University for a Charlie Kirk event that turned into a deadly political assassination when gun violence erupted. Kirk was a 31-year-old ultraconservative MAGA activist and provocateur who had launched a campus debate tour under the slogan Prove me wrong. He founded Turning Point USA at 18, building a national organization with millions of followers and thousands of campus chapters. Kirk promoted traditional gender roles, opposed abortion, defended the Second Amendment, and resisted reforms favoring minorities. His public statements have at times justified a tradeoff between gun deaths and gun rights, intensifying controversy.
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