Immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, social media was ripped in two — with one side mourning and the other celebrating.
Reaction to the murder of the conservative commentator was almost as brutal as the shooting itself, with many ecstatic over the news that Kirk died in hospital from a single gunshot to the neck while speaking at an event at a Utah university.
Conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo wrote on X: “The number of people celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death who work as teachers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other ‘helping professions’ is immensely disturbing.”
He added: “We have a serious problem in this country.”
The number of people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death who work as teachers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other "helping profe