Some Deaths Matter More than Others

A Radicalized Mother on Charlie Kirk's Murder

Deaths and tragedies happen every day, but on September 10, 2025, a strong, healthy and intelligent 31 year old man engaging in the oldest western tradition of debate was shot to death by a dysgenic homosexual. Over the next 48 hours, the internet was flooded with ordinary people dancing on his grave, jeering and laughing that he had it coming for promoting the “hateful rhetoric” that unborn babies have human rights, people have a right to defend themselves, and that sexual deviance is a sin. Somewhere else, a wide-eyed young widow with long blonde hair from a fairy tale, explained to a little baby girl why her daddy wouldn’t be coming home.

When Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck, it felt different. Was it just because it was caught on camera? Was it because he was a celebrity? Was it because we have para-social relationships with online personalities? None of these is correct. Charlie Kirk’s death made undeniable waves in the world in a way few other deaths have in history. And this essay explains that phenomenon and describes the ineffable but palpable change that has occurred overnight in the collective consciousness because of it.

All political assassinations have many things in common, but this one was different, because it was not a politician who was killed, but rather someone far closer to all of us. The common man and woman may separate themselves easily from a celebrity or a politician because of the pure, naked avarice and ambition that drives these people above all other impulses. Charlie Kirk was driven primarily by his love of God and Truth. Unlike John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, Charlie Kirk did not have mistresses, affairs and questionable personal morals. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr, who was assassinated in 1968, Charlie Kirk was not a communist, marxist radical whose work would lead to the complete degradation of black culture in North America. Unlike George Floyd, who died by fentanyl overdose in March 2020, sparking international riots, Charlie Kirk was not a career felon who had robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint. And yet all of the above people were endlessly venerated by mainstream culture, and Charlie Kirk, excoriated.

In fact, many people are upset that there are those of us who find special significance in Charlie Kirk’s death at all. But there is a reason Charlie Kirk’s death matters more and it begins with recognising that unlike the majority of politicians and public figures, Charlie was a good person. Charlie Kirk was devoted to his wife Erika and their children. In fact, his friends and colleagues have unanimously come out to express the maturity, humility and integrity of his character.

When his detractors attempt to libel him with accusations of cruelty or insensitivity, the videos of the interactions they pull quickly dispel all of them as he reveals himself to be temperate, patient and polite in all his exchanges. What can be concluded from people who celebrate the death of someone such as this, except that they are suffering from a toxic ideology?

Charlie Kirk bothered the leftists because he could and did dismantle all their views in perfect rhetoric, logic and reason. His impregnable arguments left them with no choice but to accept the immorality and incoherence of the world view they relied upon to justify their sin and vice. His viewpoints were not “political” in nature, but rather Christian and backed with the rigour and coherence of the best philosophers and thinkers mankind has ever produced. In the face of this kind of intelligence and reason, the only argument left was either to face their own evil, or to silence the voice that showed them their own decrepit reflections. Many broken people celebrated the latter when it was done for them.

There are many cockroaches hiding behind the plausible deniability of pacifism and the next order of business is to smoke them out relentlessly lest they breed and multiply. Pacifism in the face of an act of war, is a form of injustice; justice is a necessary condition for love. If we are to “love our enemies” then we must also serve them justice. Peace, when it is a peace of cowardice, is not real peace, but rather fear and suffocation.

The people saying that “all gun deaths are a tragedy” are people who wish to blame guns rather than the toxic ideology of leftism for the terrorism it has so frequently inspires since its inception in the 1920s. Guns cannot pull their own trigger. Human beings kill other people, not guns. There are places in the world where guns are outlawed and this kind of ideological violence still occurs. Outlawing guns also doesn’t prevent criminals from obtaining and using guns if they are motivated to murder. All it does is prevent good people from keeping guns to protect themselves from home invasion and rape and therefore makes them easier targets for armed robbery. Charlie Kirk advocated for the second amendment, which is the right for American citizens to bear arms, and this does not mean he advocated for the mentally ill to own guns and use them to murder innocent people.

There are indeed many people who are shot to death in America and each of these losses is a tragedy. But Charlie’s death is more tragic than theirs because what he was doing with his life was more important.

Charlie Kirk spent his entire adult life, the brief time that he had, to develop the organisation Turning Point USA, which aims to debate important cultural and political issues. Serious, intelligent and reasonable debate is the only way that we can truly make informed decisions and opinions about how our society ought to be run, the policies we ought to support, and the way we ought to act in the world. Indeed, without proper exercise of the intellect, we cannot fully exercise our free will. Without this developed intellect, most people are simply zombies unthinkingly regurgitating the opinions that the New York Times and their university professors have told them to. Charlie Kirk’s organisation therefore was not merely “political” but rather spiritual and significant in ways that no political club can ever be. Although there are many people who do important things in the world, Charlie’s work represented the very traditional and idealistic American idea that we may develop and educated and intelligent citizen who makes informed decisions when he votes.

By killing him, and then later, by celebrating his death, the ordinary teacher, professor, nurse and normie, reveals that they are not merely unwilling to think, but willing to punish those who dare to.

Charlie’s death reveals to us the way that ordinary people in our lives would react to our own deaths. Those of us who believe in God, family, beauty, truth, reason, debate, and the sanctity of innocent human life and sovereignty, have found out this weekend that most of the normies around us would be happy to see us die or at the very least believe we deserved it. Charlie is simply the louder, more eloquent and more public version of us. When we see someone that derives such unfiltered glee at the death of someone who is very much like ourselves, we would be foolish to believe that he can ever be our friend.

This is why there is no unity possible with those who have revealed themselves to be indoctrinated by the leftist terrorist ideology. Charlie’s views were neither extremist not evil but the reaction to them is.

This is not merely a political issue but a matter of life. We have two options. The first is to hide ourselves away and burrow yet further into the shadows and darkness, living a lie out of fear of being dealt with like Charlie was. The second is to fight back and not allow leftist terrorists to take our cities, schools, institutions and society from us. These people salivate at the opportunity to ban homeschooling if you try to run away from the schools, and steal children from parents who want to nurture them with the same values that told them its good to have children in the first place.

Leftists simultaneously want to murder their own children and take ours. There is no libertarian response, no farm far enough away, where we can run anymore. Charlie Kirk’s death has been a reminder of this.

There are millions of people suffering in tragedies every day through natural disaster, war and crime. However, Charlie Kirk’s death matters more because what he did with his life was more courageous and consequential. His death matters for the same reason that he was a target: he stood for something. And when he was killed, what he stood for--common sense, socially conservative, Christian values--was also attacked. When his death was ridiculed, our values were also ridiculed. As such, his death matters personally to all of us who share his values and felt represented by him.

Make no mistake, we have realized that if we don’t double down, our children will be next to be attacked. The world will not become more safe, beautiful and aligned with truth for our children…unless we make it so.