Flags will be at half-staff through Sunday in honor of the memory of Charlie Kirk
Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis released the following statement today:
“It is with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Christian conservative public figure and prominent media personality. In 2012, Charlie co-founded Turning Point USA to promote conservative values and open dialogue among the youth of America. As one of the most prominent voices of his time, Charlie worked to help spark conversations that would engage millions of young Americans in civic life and challenge them to articulate their values. He was widely recognized for his leadership and influence in the political landscape and was admired by many prominent figures, including President Donald Trump. Charlie was a strong man of God as well as a husband and a father, and he is now rejoicing with our Lord in Heaven.
“President Donald Trump has directed all flags to be lowered to half-staff immediately. Pursuant to this direction and in honor of Charlie’s memory, I hereby direct the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to be flown at half-staff at all local and state buildings, installations, and grounds throughout the State of Florida immediately until sunset on Sunday, September 14, 2025.”
Please see the Proclamation by President Donald Trump here.
Sad day, a loss not only to his family but this nation as well.
His conversations may have been controversial, but it can hardly be denied they caused people to question their beliefs.
Wonder how many of those 👎🏻 are from SBAC members or other locally elected progressive Democrats.
Yet they claim it’s conservatives who are violent and want to silence voices. Guess they’re wrong again.
“Based on data from recent years, including 2024 and early 2025, political violence in the U.S. is overwhelmingly linked to right-wing extremism, particularly white supremacy and anti-government ideologies. While left-wing extremist violence has occurred, it is considerably less frequent and deadly. There are also ongoing concerns about violence from domestic Islamist extremists. ”
“All the extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with eight of the 13 killings involving white supremacists and the remaining five having connections to far-right anti-government extremists. This is the third year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings. This trend has also been interrupted by the New Orleans attack.”
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism#:~:text=Download%20and%20print,radicalization%20to%20foreign%20extremist%20ideologies.
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2024#:~:text=All%20the%20extremist%2Drelated%20murders,by%20the%20New%20Orleans%20attack.
Just an FYI:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-political-violence-expert-analysis-00558638?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=0966e25a-7901-40ef-b6c0-f03a3d4c478f
Thaks for the link with various expert thoughts on the shooting and state of politics in America. Among those are pointing out that by polling only 2% of Americans think violence is the correct or imminent tactic for solving our problems and that the role of leaders should be to quiet the targeted outrage, which unfortunately is exactly the opposite of what our president and various administration spokesmen and MAGA leaders are doing. He and they are busy dividing the nation, not bringing it together.
Jazzman, I hope you can find 20 minutes to watch this. It’s not partisan. I think you’ll maybe even agree. Much love.
https://youtu.be/azE7nqqQMmo
Thanks for the link Slice. I largely agree with the speaker’s opinions except for an important distinction, which is I don’t agree it’s a conspiracy of big shots. I do think with him, and think I have stated here before, that Americans agree now on more things than we did in our history and that includes a period of time within my remembrance – the civil rights movement and the end of legal segregation. A large number of Americans at that time didn’t think blacks should have equal rights. That is now thankfully the position of a very small number and among American cultural heroes – admired and liked by people of almost all political opinions, in Arkansas and New England – are Oprah, Morgan Freeman, Denzel, etc. That kind of acceptance didn’t exist back in the 60’s, nor did the South accept blacks in the restaurant or down the hall in the hotel with you. That is real progress. Same goes for the accetance of gays, married or not – one of Trump’s ambassadors and reocurring person of power is openly gay and no one cares. Good! Majorities want universal health care and other topics I won’t bring up to avoid a fight on thie greater point here. The idea that we are close to civil war is nonsense – based on what issue of overriding importance and major disagreement?
So, we are being worked by a part of the media to gin up outrage over BS? Absolutely. But I don;t think it’s the big shots working it. When the “big shots” controlled the media we had Walter Conkrite, a father figure who most accepted as the wise word on whatever was in the news. He wasn’t stirring any pots. Who is stirring the pot are some of the big shots and the politicians who gain by that outrage, and for the media that means making money.
This didn’t start with Fox News, it started with right wing screamers on radio back in the 1980s when the “fairness doctrine” was abandoned by the FCC. Peope like Limbaugh were getting rich hard selling “enemies of America” back then and even though radio and TV are on public and limited airwaves – unlike the internet – which is where some claim the 1st amendment is being broken if those who run the sites edit out some of the absolute garbage the person in this video calls out. X is a complete sewer now, and of course you never know if a particular piece of crap is by a nut job American or a Russian bot – they also benefit by American outrage.
Anyway, thanks for the link Slice. The guy is right on the biggest issue he raises in my opinion-.
High five Good Buddy!!
I was never really a fan of Charlie Kirk but it disgusts me to see a person assassinated due to their personal or political beliefs. Anyone who applauds or celebrates a stone cold assassination is complete trash and subhuman. This young man had a family that will be devastated for the rest of their lives.
+1 Slice, though he’s not the only prominent political figure murdered or shot at this year. He was especially young and with his young family, a tragic event.
Jazzman – Please name some prominent political figures that have been murdered or shot at.
“House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot in their home early Saturday morning….
…the defendant disguised himself as a member of law enforcement and traveled to the homes of Democratic elected officials with the intent to intimidate and murder. Early that morning, the defendant traveled to the Hoffmans home in Champlin, Minnesota. By posing as a police officer, Boelter compelled the Hoffmans to answer their door. He then repeatedly shot Senator Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman and he attempted to shoot their daughter, Hope Hoffman.
Boelter then traveled to the homes of two other Minnesota elected officials, only to find that no one at those locations was home. He next drove to the home of Speaker Emerita and Representative Melissa Hortman. There, Boelter repeatedly shot, and killed, Representative Hortman and her husband, Mark. Following a two-day manhunt, law enforcement arrested the defendant near his family residence in Green Isle, Minnesota…
Gov. Tim Walz announced the news during a morning news conference
“Our state lost a great leader, and I lost the dearest of friends,” Walz said. “Speaker Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor and a sense of service. She was a formidable public servant, a fixture and a giant in Minnesota. She woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. She is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many.”
Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) and his wife, Yvette, were also shot in their home in a related attack. Walz said both are expected to survive.
…..Following the Minnesota shooting, Trump called the incident “absolutely terrible,” however, he slammed Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and did not call him.
“I think he’s a terrible governor. I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,” he told ABC News’ Rachel Scott on June 15.
“Why would I call him? I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ Uh, the guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. I could be nice and call, but why waste time?” Trump told reporters on June 17.
…The Minnesota state legislators’ shooting took place two months after a Democratic governor and his family were said by police to have been targeted in their own home.
On April 13, the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was set on fire by a suspect while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were celebrating Passover, police said.
…Balmer allegedly told police he would have attacked Shapiro with the hammer if he happened upon the governor inside the residence, according to investigators.
https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/18843
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-condemns-political-violence-mention-attacks-democrats/story?id=125475029
— “On October 28, 2022, 42-year-old David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. DePape beat Paul with a hammer during a home invasion of the couple’s Pacific Heights, San Francisco, residence, leaving him with a fractured skull that required surgery.[6]
San Francisco police arrested DePape at the scene. He planned to take Speaker Nancy Pelosi hostage and interrogate her…
When taunting Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, sarcastically asked, “How’s her husband doing?” He then remarked, “She’s against building a wall in our border, even though she has a wall around her house—which obviously didn’t do a very good job….
Republican congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene (of Georgia), and Claudia Tenney (of New York), as well as Donald Trump Jr. and David Clarke Jr., all disseminated other false claims about the attack, such as claims that Pelosi knew the attacker or was involved in male prostitution.[120][121][126] Referring to various conspiracies, conservative talk radio host Charlie Kirk called for an “amazing patriot” from among his audience to “be a midterm hero” by deciding to “bail out” DePape “and then go ask him some questions”.[127][128] Days after the attack, former president Donald Trump also spread false conspiracy theories about the attack, suggesting it could have been staged.
Not a “prominent political figure”, but a political act of violence that left a cop with a family dead:
“ATLANTA (AP) — The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday….
White had been stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street, where he opened fire from a sidewalk, authorities said. The bullets pierced “blast-resistant” windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage. More than 500 shell casings have been recovered from the crime scene, the GBI said….
…Police officer David Rose, 33, who graduated from the police academy in March, died in hospital after he was wounded. No civilians were injured in the 8 August shooting in Atlanta, Georgia…”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/shooter-attacked-cdc-headquarters-to-protest-covid-19-vaccines-authorities-say
My comment – Trump has not mentioned the attack on the CDC, an agency in his administration which was responsible for quickly getting out the vaccine he rushed into production, and RFK, jr who’s lifelong comments were fuel for idiots like this attacker waithed a week to denounce the attack without defending an agency under his department.
Fine, but cut the BS he is now spewing about his political enemies being the top reason for political violence. All the Democratic major office holders now and in the past, including Obama, Biden, and Harris quickly poted calls of sympathy to Kirk’s family and denounced the attack and others like it, something Trump avoided when the shoe was on the other foot. He also regulary calls his political opponents enemies of America.
I’ll say it.
He doesn’t possess the character.
Your comment was this year!
Don’t you have your own opinion? Why do you need to copy and paste other individuals information. I don’t need to do that because I have my own brain.
Do 2 wrongs make it right? No, it doesn’t. I always told my kids, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, DONT say anything at all.” There are sick individuals that have been created by the liberals/democrats/teachers/internet/colleges and people like yourself. WE ARE ALL ALLOWED OUR OPINIONS! Remember, you live in a FREE country.
I don’t and never would celebrate anyone being attacked or killed. Too many people are celebrating this kind of death. When opinions kill people they need to pay. This animal will pay!
Too late for for the sympathy from the Left. I doubt they personally wrote their own bs Biden doesn’t even know that he himself is still alive. They knew they were spreading hate by the language they used. Fascists, Hitler, really?? There are so many more but why say them.
Go back under your rock with the sick people.
Just my opinion.
Sorry DonnaR, but quoting facts from reputable sources is a bad habit I have. Unlike you and your apprently fabulous brain, I don’t just pull them out of my butt, and yes, they all were this year – is that a problem?
Like you, I would not celebrate anyone being attacked or killed (exception for Putin!), but unlike you I understand there are those who may agree with me on many things who will kill or attack others, though many less than those who agree with you – see data above. That’s a problem for both of us – too bad you can’t admit it, or that those you disagree with may be otherwise of high character.