Charlie Kirk’s Last Question Before Fatal Shooting Explained

About 20 minutes in, a young audience member asked Kirk, “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”

“Too many,” he responded, prompting applause and cheers from the crowd.

He was then quizzed, “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk answered before a gunshot echoed through the venue.

Before his death, the Turning Point USA co-founder frequently spoke out about mass shootings across the country, including the incident at Christian Covenant School in Tennessee.

“Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty…” he said during a panel discussion. “So we need to be very clear that you’re not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools.”

He continued, “You will never live in a society where you have an armed citizenry, and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am – I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth having 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. Nobody talks like this. They live in a completely alternate universe.”

Kirk also supported the idea of hiring armed guards at schools to protect the children amid the increasing crime rates.