{"id":43853,"date":"2025-09-11T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43853"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:26:08","slug":"charlie-kirks-quote-on-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/charlie-kirks-quote-on-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"AI:  Charlie Kirk&#8217;s quote on gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-34-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-34-768x1024.png 768w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-34-225x300.png 225w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-34-113x150.png 113w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-34.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image from Wikipedia.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Google AI Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full quote, said by conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a 2023 Turning Point USA event, is: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s worth 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&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement was made on April 5, 2023, during an appearance at Awaken Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. A full version of the quote, as reported by Media Matters, includes an additional sentence: &#8220;That is a prudent deal. It is rational&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote resurfaced in September 2025, following Kirk&#8217;s assassination at a university in Utah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI responses may include mistakes.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch?p=ai_overviews&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image from Wikipedia.org) Google AI Overview The full quote, said by conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a 2023 Turning Point USA event, is: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/charlie-kirks-quote-on-gun-violence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43856,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43853\/revisions\/43856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}