Did Charlie Kirk justify his assassination by supporting the right to keep and bear arms. According to F=former CNN anchor Don Lemon and a liberal podcaster who featured him as a guest on a recent episode, yes.
As Mediaite reports, Lemon was interviewed on the I’ve Had It podcast by co-host Jennifer Welch on a recent episode, and Welch brought up Kirk’s murder and Erika Kirk’s recent sit-down with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
Before sharing their thoughts, Welch played a clip of new CBS News boss Bari Weiss interviewing Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk earlier this week. Weiss asked what she would say to people who said Charlie Kirk “had it coming.”
“You’re sick. He’s a human being,” Erika Kirk said. “You think he deserved that? Tell that to my three-year-old daughter.”
Welch then said the premise of Weiss’ question was that Kirk’s critics had justified his death. She said the person who really did that, though, was Kirk, based on what he said.
“The person that I heard that justified his death was him,” Welch said about Kirk. “He’s the one that said on tape that if school kids die but it means he gets to have a Second Amendment, then that’s what it’s going to be. He’s the one that justified it.”
Welch was talking about something Kirk said at a Turning Point event in 2023 when he was asked about mass shootings in the United States. Kirk’s response was, in part, “I think it’s worth it 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.”
That quote doesn’t justify Kirk’s assassination, but Lemon didn’t push back in the slightest. In fact, he leaned in to Welch’s assertion.
Everyone I know prefaces it the same way that you do — he should still be alive. The man should not be dead. However, it is true he promoted guns, he did not want sensible gun legislation, and he said that you have to have a certain amount of casualties, so to speak, in order to have a Second Amendment. He did say that. And he happened to die that way. That’s fact.
No, Kirk didn’t say that you have to have a certain amount of casualties in order to have a Second Amendment. All Kirk said, however inartfully, is that the bad things that are done with firearms do not justify taking away our right to own them; a statement that shouldn’t be all that controversial.
Let’s put this in a First Amendment context. If we banned social media tomorrow, that would almost certainly lead to less online sex trafficking and cyberbullying that can lead some people to take their own lives. Would Lemon be willing to take that step, even if it meant his own voice would be silenced? I highly doubt it. but that doesn’t mean that Lemon is okay with child sex trafficking.
We could almost certainly reduce violent crime if we scrapped the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizures and its guarantee of due process in the legal system. Does that mean that those who want a robust Fourth Amendment are justifying violent crime in any way? Of course not, and it’s just as ridiculous to argue that someone who believes in a robust Second Amendment is justifying criminal acts involving a gun.
In the same podcast, Lemon also insinuated that Erika Kirk has been faking her grief, saying that “a lot of crying that seems kind of act-y to me,” before adding, “as someone who has been in grief before, you don’t know how someone is going to act.”
Well then why even suggest that Erika Kirk is putting on an act? That comment is honestly just as reprehensible as he and Welch’s contention that Kirk justified his own death by supporting the Second Amendment. Lemon didn’t need to go there, especially since he himself recognizes that grief manifests itself in different ways.
If I told you that I genuinely laughed within five minutes of my wife dying, you’d probably think I’m a monster. But it’s the truth. I was sitting in her hospital room, still holding her hand, when the nurse walked in and I told him that she had passed away. He had just started his shift and I hadn’t seen him at all in the three weeks she had been hospitalized, so he didn’t know who I was.
When he asked me if I was her son, I actually guffawed. Even though Miss E was nine years older than me, people always thought that I was older than she was. I knew how offended she would have been hearing that, and I couldn’t help but laugh when I heard his question. I think I may have even told the nurse that she was going to haunt him for that.
Does that mean I wasn’t brokenhearted? Of course not. I’ve shed a lot of tears since then, including plenty later that morning. But as Lemon himself recognizes, grief doesn’t look the same for everyone… yet he still made that snarky comment and dehumanized a widow who is still very much adapting to life without her husband.
It’s not like I had any respect for Don Lemon before now, but watching this whole exchange just reminded me of why I can’t stand him. It’s not just his smugness, arrogance, or knee-jerk support for things like gun control. Lemon believes he’s standing on some sort of moral high ground when it reality he’s waist-deep in a swamp of self-righteousness. His lack of self-awareness would be comical if it didn’t lead to ugliness like accusing someone of faking their grief over losing a spouse… or the shared claim by Lemon and Welch that someone’s support for the Second Amendment justifies their assassination.
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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