When Sir Salman Rushdie spoke to Sky News about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his comment was unflinching: the killing, he said, was “a consequence of America’s terrifying gun culture.” It was a stark verdict from a man who has not only written about violence and fanaticism, but survived a savage attempt on his own life. …
To interpret Kirk’s death as the result of a lone madman or a political extremist is to miss the structural truth. The United States has normalised a level of gun availability unmatched in the developed world. Policies vary by state, but in many places access to powerful long-range rifles is scarcely restricted. In such a society, assassinations are not aberrations — they are logical outcomes.
Rushdie’s comments gesture toward this systemic reality. A country in which guns are household objects is a country in which political violence is not only possible but predictable. It is telling that within hours of Kirk’s killing, the public conversation shifted not to the incredulity that such a weapon could be obtained, but instead to the identity and motives of the shooter. The existence of the gun itself — the instrument that made the act so easy — is treated as background noise.
Embedded within that normalisation is a cultural mythology: the romantic notion of the frontier, the rugged individual, and the armed citizen fending off threats. This mythology persists even as the toll of gun violence rises, even as schools, churches, synagogues and supermarkets become sites of massacre.
In reality, guns do not function as instruments of freedom. They function as a permanent destabilising force, rendering every public space vulnerable. When guns are everywhere, safety is nowhere.
— Dorset Eye in Charlie Kirk and the Culture He Defended — Rushdie’s Stark Warning
The only thing that protects us from the current fate of Britain is our Second Amendment. Idiots like Rushdie can sit under the thumb of a tyrannical government if they wish but I prefer messy freedom.
I’ll take my chances here.
Has Rushdie, an author with really the only banned book in the world and the subject of numerous death threats and attempts, said anything about Britain locking people up for opinions?
Seems that would be a more prescient concern for an author in the UK.
“Has Rushdie, an author with really the only banned book in the world and the subject of numerous death threats and attempts,…
His book, ‘The Satanic Verses’ earned him a death sentence from an Islamic cleric, a damn shame no one has carried it out yet…
A religious order called a ‘Fatwa’ I think it was…
BREAKING NEWS! ELON MUSK ISSUES GREAT 2A ANNOUNCEMENT.
“Elon Musk issues great 2A statement in response to an insane gun-related story arising from the [formally free nation now under oppressive marx -ist soci -alist rule of woke and illegal alien and foreign national born Islam] United Kingdom. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses..”
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More left wing ideology violence: California – Children’s Birthday Party attack, 4 Dead (its unclear right now, maybe more, some outlets reporting 5), 10 Hurt – Shooter(s) at Large – early indications point to more than one shooter – Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi initially described the shooting as gang-related but that has not been confirmed.
ht* tps: *//townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/30/14-shot-4-killed-at-childrens-birthday-party-in-california-shooter-at-large-n2667148
Says the man with a fatua issued against him. Obviously, Sir Rushdie you have armed security 24/7/365.
“…the public conversation shifted not to the incredulity that such a weapon could be obtained, but instead to the identity and motives of the shooter.”
More than that, it turned to left-wingers dancing in Charlie’s blood and ordinary people waking up to the fact they’re surrounded by maniacs.
To interpret Kirk’s death as the result of a lone madman or a political extremist is to miss the structural truth. The United States has normalized a level of
gunrecreational and psychoactive d-r-u-g* availability almost unmatched in the developed world.The prevalence of use is unmatched in the developed world. But we can’t talk about that because everyone’s on the Big Pot/Big P-h-a-r-m-a* party train.
Next, maybe we can talk about how much your brain begins to break when you get to the point of being secks_ually* aroused by cartoon animals. Once you go down a path of allowing garbage into your mind, there are no boundaries. But we can’t talk about p-e-r-v-e-r-s-i-o-n-s* ruining people because we have to be accepting and inclusive. Furthermore, we have to allow these weirdos to indoctrinate children into all forms of k-i-n-k*, otherwise you’re just a [fill in the blank]phobe. Love is love.
*trying to avoid comment moderation