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LightBringer:
“It’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.” — Charlie Kirk
A true man of his words, dying for what he believed in, protecting the Second amendment.
A lot of people disturbingly saying he deserved what he got because of that quote but its a completely rational conversation to have. Like most rights, there are positive and negative consequences. The negatives to say the right to drive a vehicle are that we have car crashes and people die. Most agree that the positives of the freedom to drive outweigh the negatives of crash deaths. Doesn't mean they are saying they don't care about crash victims. What if crash deaths were 10x what they are now? We'd want to discuss whether the right to drive a vehicle needs to be curtailed. What numbers of deaths is the tipping point? It's a rational conversation. Similarly, at what point do the negative consequences outweigh the positives to the second amendment? If 1 person were killed each year by gun violence, is that enough to overturn the 2nd amendment? Current levels of gun violence? 10x our current level? Clearly Charlie Kirk believed that the positives outweigh the negatives and I'm sure he would still think that. He would also believe that the negatives are tragic and terrible. Its the right way to frame the debate IMO. Personally, I don't think the positives outweigh the negatives and gun ownership should be severely curtailed. Doesn't mean he deserved to die for his opinion.