Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. (left), Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. (center), and Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc. (right), all mourned the deadly shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. (Getty Images and Fox News Digital/Elizabeth Elkind and Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Greene added that she believes Kirk was "killed for the words that he says and the things that he stood for."
"He was always about the debate and Charlie Kirk was never for violence and to see him murdered in such a graphic way in front of the camera and that video is too gruesome," said Greene.
"We're honestly shocked, we're devastated," she said, adding, "I'm at a loss for words and I'm not often at a loss for words."
Democrats have also expressed grief over Kirk’s passing. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said, "It's awful. It's absolutely awful."
"I'm sorry for his family. There's no room for political violence in our country and we all can do more to just condemn it and hopefully that's the antidote to it, but it's awful, period," said Swalwell.
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Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, distributes MAGA hats to the public on May 1, 2025, during a TPUSA event in California. (Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Pressed on whether both sides of the political aisle share in the responsibility for the ongoing spate of political violence, especially in light of the recent shootings of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, Orden answered, "It’s horrible, I said the same thing."
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"Let's quit convoluting this issue. The vast majority, by orders of magnitudes, of the politically violent speech is coming out of the left. Period. So, until these people stop doing that, and until you stop trying to drive wedges between Republicans and Democrats and everyday Americans, this is going to happen again and again and again," he said.
"So, every single one of you people needs to go home tonight and do some deep soul-searching. There's a dead man who left two kids in a widow because of you," Van Orden added.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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