Turned in by a family member, no less:
“We got him,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox said.
Tyler Robinson, 22, had become “more political” in the run-up to the shooting, his family told officials.
On Thursday evening, a family member reached out to a family friend who contacted law enforcement with information that Robinson “had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident,” said Cox. He also cited as key pieces of evidence engravings on bullets found in a rifle believed used in the attack as well as messages attributed to the accused shooter that a roommate shared with law enforcement after the shooting.
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Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer is seen fleeing from a building rooftop moments after the fatal bullet was fired, according to a new video posted online Wednesday evening by Dustin Ivers.
In the four-second video, taken from inside Utah Valley University’s Hall of Flags building, the camera pans over the crowd of several thousand people in the open-air amphitheatre where Kirk’s The American Comeback Tour was taking place as panic sets in.
I suspect many people in Canada have never even heard of Charlie Kirk but will parrot utter un-truths about him for the stunning want of the ability to research his words for themselves.
Hot on the heels of Iryna Zarutska's vicious murder and the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, they were keen to celebrate his assassination, though, even if doing so online and elsewhere (like idiots) means the inability to enter the US.
(Sidebar: the Americans are terribly humourless about laughing at people getting shot. Canadians wouldn't understand.)
Charlie Kirk did what Canadians won't do: researched his position, stated it, and expected others to do the same.
That the left - once again - proves its insecurity and emotional retardation by reacting with homicidal violence proves what they are at their core.
Charlie Kirk could be anyone who has the audacity to speak, an action that, in such a world, is revolutionary:
Political candidates, judges, legislators, and even corporate CEOs and tech companies led by politically involved billionaires arguably wield power and make decisions that affect people’s lives. Even though we’re horrified by violence directed at them, we know the perpetrators and their supporters (such people unfortunately exist) imagine themselves striking at individuals and institutions who made themselves legitimate targets through their formal authority. That leaves most of us safe.
But Charlie Kirk’s whole role was to debate and persuade young people through his Turning Point USA organization. He was shot at Utah Valley University while speaking at a Prove Me Wrong event that allowed his opponents to challenge him and discuss differences of opinion. The only harm he could have done was by voicing his beliefs and, perhaps, changing some minds. That is, Kirk was almost certainly assassinated for no other reason than that his murderer disagreed with his ideas.
From John Stuart Mill:
Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
I wouldn't be surprised if the book was banned in Canada.
(Sidebar: Canada certainly knows something about censorship.)
“I would deport Justin Trudeau the first day. That guy sucks,” Kirk started his lengthy response, before outlining what he thought was wrong with the country.
Who was it who passed two censorship laws, called half of the country "extremists", and then ran away when they showed up in Ottawa?
Also:
One — a drag artist in Edmonton — has gone viral for celebrating the death of Kirk and calling for the assassination of Premier Danielle Smith.
On her Instagram handle, Fox McCloud, she posted the story with a picture of a tin man in military uniform, stating, "Death to the Tin Man! Charlie Kirk is no more. I hope he felt as terrified and I hope the rest of his kind are just as scared."
"Miss Smith next, please and thank you," McCloud stated.
That wasn't a nice thing Mr. McCloud said.
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