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Just before Charlie Kirk , the influential head of right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA , was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon at an event at Utah Valley University, he was in the midst of answering a question about one of his movement’s favorite targets of disinformation and hate. Hunter Kozak, a liberal TikTok personality , had asked Kirk if he knew how many trans mass shooters there have been in the past 10 years, apparently preparing to challenge him on that number relative to all mass shootings. In what would become some of his last words, Kirk—channeling his and the right wing’s recent campaign to paint the trans community as especially menta

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