What If This Is a Turning Point?

""What he would want more than anything is for people to channel their anger into proper activism," Bowyer told Johnson, a few minutes later advising viewers: "Consider yesterday that moment-that turning point for you-of thinking about getting involved in your local community or running for office.""

""Charlie was not a revolutionary," Kolvet said. "He does not want to see the rage we're all feeling be misdirected to evil" and would want "more speech, more freedom, less violence.""

""The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime," he said. "The radicals on the left are the problem.""

Tyler Bowyer, chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, appeared visibly upset on an X livestream after seeing a video of Charlie Kirk being fatally shot in the neck. Bowyer urged viewers to channel their anger into proper activism and to consider getting involved in local community efforts or running for office. Andrew Kolvet, a longtime Kirk spokesperson, echoed calls for nonviolence and said Kirk wanted more speech, more freedom, and less violence. Several conservative figures on the stream emphasized restraint. Other public figures responded by assigning partisan blame, increasing tensions in public reaction to the shooting.

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