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--Kim
In the past few decades, most political martyrs in America who were assassinated for their beliefs or the views they expressed, were Democrats or civil-rights leaders or people who espoused liberal ideology: President John F. Kennedy (1963); Medgar Evers (1963); Malcomb X (1965); Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1968); Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968); liberal talk-radio commentator Alan Berg (1984); abortion provider Dr. George Tiller (2009); State Senator Clementa Pinckney (2015); former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (2025).
And most of their killers have been motivated by conservative ideology.
A deceptive lie is emerging from Trump and the right claiming Democrats are the killers and Republicans are the victims.
But the opposite is true.
Charlie Kirk is the FIRST high-profile Republican in modern times to be gunned down because of his political beliefs.
And it wasn't at the hands of a Democrat. Or a trans person. Or a gay person. Or a black person.
Charlie Kirk was killed by the demographic that commits most mass shootings and political assassinations in this country — a straight white male.
Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, comes from a conservative Christian family steeped in gun culture. His mother often publicly posted photos on Facebook of herself and her three sons brandishing assault rifles. Both his mother and his father are registered Republicans. His grandmother, Debbie Robinson, told the Daily Mail that he was brought up in a "staunch Republican and Trump-loving family." In 2018 he dressed for Halloween as Pepe the Frog, a symbol appropriated by the alt-right white supremacist movement and designated as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League in 2016.
Right-wing queen-of-mean Laura Loomer recently (in July) viciously attacked Charlie Kirk after he called for the Epstein files to be released and criticized Trump's military actions. Loomer called Kirk a "charlatan" and a "political opportunist" and someone who "stabs Trump in the back." She said he had "betrayed" the president.
Alt-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes encouraged his fans to troll and attack Charlie Kirk for being "insufficiently committed to nationalism" and being a "fake conservative." Kirk had a deep friendship and often collaborated with a gay black man, Rob Smith, an Iraq War combat veteran. Fuentes specifically sent his fans to events co-hosted by Charlie Kirk and Rob Smith to ask degrading questions like, "How does anal sex help us win the culture war?"
It has been widely reported on social media that Tyler Robinson followed Loomer and "admired" Fuentes.
This whole thing could be "right on right" crime — Tyler Robinson may have killed Charlie Kirk for not being conservative enough; Robinson may have believed he was doing the bidding of ultra conservatives Loomer and Fuentes when he took out Kirk.
And yes, if you count the incident in Butler Pennsylvania, there was an attempted assassination on Trump last summer. But his shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican and FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks's activity on social networking platforms as antisemitic and anti-immigrant — right-wing positions.
Even in the extremely rare case when Republicans are victims of political violence, the perpetrators are often still conservative — political violence in this country comes almost exclusively from the right... 1,200 conservatives were convicted in connection with the violence of January 6 and not a single Democrat was among them.
One glaring exception is the non-fatal shooting of Republican Congressman Steve Scalise by a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2017. Bernie immediately took to the Senate floor and publicly denounced the shooter and his actions. This was a rare instance of a politically-motivated shooting being carried out by someone on the left against a Republican target.
Another exception is the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford by a leftist activist who wanted to spark a revolution — she was upset about the Vietnam War.
A second attempt on Ford was made by Sqeaky Fromme, a Charles Manson cult follower, who was trying to draw attention to the destruction of California's redwood forests — she didn't target Ford for his political beliefs.
There also was an assassination attempt on Reagan but it was not politically motivated or rooted in political ideology — the shooter was attempting to gain the affection of Jodie Foster with whom he was obsessed.
The same is true of the would-be assassin who shot Alabama Governor George Wallace as he was campaigning for president in 1972. While Wallace was officially a New Deal Democrat, his virulent segregationist beliefs put him more on the right-wing side of the political spectrum. But he wasn't shot for his political beliefs and the shooter's motivation was tied to a desire to gain national attention rather than being rooted in political ideology.
Another lie emerging from Trump and the right is the blatantly false statement that transgendered people are more likely to commit mass shootings.
According to Fox News there have been seven mass shootings that were carried out by trans shooters.
But according to PolitiFact, from 2018 to 2025, there were 4,147 mass shootings, based on Gun Violence Archive data which defines mass shooting as at least 4 people being shot, not including the shooter.
This means there were 4,140 mass shooters who were NOT trans and only 7 shooters who were trans.
Seven out of 4,147 is .17%. That's not "seventeen percent." It's "POINT seventeen percent" or 17% of 1%. Said another way, out of every 10,000 shooters, only 17 would be trans and the other 9,983 shooters would not be trans.
Seven trans shooters in 8 years works out to one trans shooting every 417 days. As I have previously demonstrated in my writings, preachers commit sex crimes against children at an average rate of one a day — the same time-frame that would yield ONE trans shooting, would also yield 417 preachers exposed for committing sex crimes against children.
Yet, society is still reluctant to draw a connection between being a preacher and a predator, even as some on the right are discussing whether there is a "pattern" of violence involving transgender individuals.
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Photo: Charlie Kirk and collaborator Rob Smith, from Rob Smith's X account.
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EDIT: This post has been edited to add in additional shootings.
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