Old Charlie Kirk Post on X Goes Viral After Minneapolis Shooting

I’m already sick of talking about the shooting of Alex Pretti, and I’m coming around to hating just about everyone on either side of the debate right now. From the anti-gun side suddenly defending the Second Amendment to people who should know better suddenly sounding like deranged anti-gunners, I’m finding it hard not to just hate everyone except for a select few people.

It’s quite the juxtaposition to where I was in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

It’s also darkly ironic that an old post of Kirk’s on X appears to be getting a lot of traction in the wake of Pretti’s shooting.

The post, originally shared on X more than seven years ago, has gone viral again in the days following Pretti’s killing, as critics and supporters alike point to it as emblematic of the broader national divide over guns and government authority.

What To Know

Charlie Kirk’s X post from March 4, 2018 read: “The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection. It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens.”

The post resurfaced after the killing of Alex Pretti during a protest in Minneapolis, an incident that has prompted multiple investigations and intense scrutiny of federal agents’ actions and the presence of firearms at demonstrations.

The official X account Homeland Dems reshared Kirk’s post with the caption “Interesting.” That post has since garnered more than 1.2 million views, along with thousands of reposts and comments.

The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection

It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 4, 2018

Why It Matters

The renewed attention to Kirk’s statement comes as the Pretti case has become a flashpoint in the national gun debate, particularly around claims that firearms are necessary to resist government overreach.

Now, I’ve said my piece about what it looks like happened with Pretti, and nothing I’ve seen since has suggested that I was wrong in thinking this is probably a bad shoot.

However, let’s also understand something here. A bad shoot is not the same thing as government overreach. Yes, the administration screwed up by immediately taking an “ICE can do no wrong” approach, though they’ve at least backed off on that somewhat, but these guys are there enforcing longstanding federal laws that the so-called leadership of cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis has refused to help the federal government enforce.

Rather than alerting the feds that an illegal was caught being a violent thug, they just put them back out on the street as if they were lawful citizens, and that means ICE has to conduct these kids of operations to get them and deport them.

Enforcing immigration laws, as the federal government has done for decades, isn’t government overreach.

That said, Kirk was right about why the Second Amendment exists, and I’ll maintain that Pretti had every right to carry a firearm with his permit, to carry extra magazines, and didn’t deserve to be killed because of it, which some people who should know better don’t seem to get.

Yeah, Kash Patel, among others, I’m looking at you.

Kirk’s post is going viral not because it’s actually relevant to what happened in Minneapolis, but because those who celebrated Kirk’s murder now want to use his post as a gotcha for those they think are totally cool with Pretti being killed.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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