This split image shows Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk speaking moments before his assassination and a still from cellphone video showing a dark-clad figure on a rooftop nearby. (@Doug_Zimmer1/X, Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
Kirk called the violent momentum a "natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture." He accused the culture of tolerating "violence and mayhem," while also slamming "the cowardice" of local prosecutors and school officials for their complicity in promoting the trend of violent attitudes.
"The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb," Kirk wrote in his post.
In Kirk's post, he also pointed to the fact that voters in California were effectively eulogizing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murderer Luigi Mangione by naming a state ballot measure after him. It was called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act, which sought to make it harder for medical insurance companies to deny claims for treatments or medications.
Wednesday's horrific assassination of Kirk, who founded the grassroots conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA in 2012, is just the latest incident of conservative figures and institutions being targeted with violence. The fatal shooting comes amid a record over the past four years of conservatives and Republicans encountering violence, a Fox News Digital review found, including two assassination attempts on Trump within about a two-month period in 2024.
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A photo shows the arson attack that took place at the New Mexico GOP Party headquarters in Albuquerque earlier this year. (New Mexico Republican Party)
Going back to 2023, former NCAA swimmer and conservative political activist Riley Gaines was attacked and barricaded by protesters in a room at San Francisco State University after she went to campus to speak to students about banning biological males who identify as transgender from competing in women's sports. The event was part of a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute forum that was taking place on the university's campus.
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Meanwhile, Churches and pro-life groups have faced dozens upon dozens of attacks dating back to 2022 following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which effectively ended the recognition of abortion as a constitutional right.
The attacks included a "firebombed" pro-life center in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, vandalized Catholic churches that were targets of arson attacks, and pro-choice protesters interrupting faith services. The attacks came after a far-left pro-choice group declared in a public letter that it was "open season" on pro-lifers.
Notably, in 2017, then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., was shot along with three others when James Hodgkinson, a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter, fired upon an Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field as Republican lawmakers practiced for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Scalise, who nearly died but ultimately recovered, remains in office and is currently the House Majority Leader for the Republicans.
Fox News Digital's Jasmine Baehr and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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