Charlie Kirk is dead.

Shot in the neck while preaching the very gospel he helped write—one where guns are sacred, freedom is violent, and mass shootings are the price of liberty. He died in public, at a university, while defending a worldview that has led to the deaths of thousands.

He didn’t believe in gun control.
He didn’t believe in background checks, red flag laws, or restrictions on military-grade weapons.
He believed that the Second Amendment was absolute—even if it meant children died in classrooms and shoppers died in malls.

He said as much, proudly:
“If it means we get to keep the Second Amendment, then yes, people are going to die.”

Now he is dead. And the gun was legal.

This will be called a tragedy. But for whom?

For the families of dead children he dismissed as “statistical noise”?
For the victims he blamed for not carrying weapons?
For the audience that watched their leader fall to the very logic he spent a decade defending?

This is not senseless.
It is not tragic.
It is ironic—in every possible way.

The irony.

He spent his life defending the very tool that killed him. He sold guns as freedom. They returned as fate. Tragic irony.

Kirk thought the gun protected him. Instead, it made him a target. Meanwhile, a school shooting happened that same day—already forgotten, because Kirk’s death stole the headlines. Situational irony.

In America, the deaths of children aren’t news anymore. But the death of a man who justified those deaths? That’s a media event. Systemic irony.

He said mass shootings were worth it. Moral irony.

“People are going to die,” he said, with smug clarity.
Now the people include him.

And people are mourning.

They’re calling him a hero. A patriot. A freedom fighter.

“Congratulations Charlie Kirk,” I wrote.
“It’s ironic, don’tcha think?”

Let that sit.

Because anyone who mourns Charlie Kirk without reckoning with what he stood for is complicit.
Complicit in the bloodshed he justified.
Complicit in the policies that enabled it.
Complicit in the culture that elevates guns above children, ideology above empathy.

He did not grieve for others. After Parkland, he mocked the survivors.
After Uvalde, he blamed “fatherlessness.”
After Buffalo, Las Vegas, Sandy Hook — he never said a name. Never said enough.
He said this violence was necessary.
He said the deaths were worth it.

Now the system has sent him the bill.

Paid in full.

And while his supporters cry foul, another family is crying quietly in a hallway, ignored, erased.

A child is dead. Again.
But the cameras were pointed at the man who said that’s just the price of liberty.

Congratulations, Charlie Kirk!

So tell me — isn’t it ironic?

Author’s Note:

I don’t celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death. I condemn the violence that ended his life.
I don’t believe there’s a place for guns in civil society — no matter who is holding them.
Violence against another human being should never be justified, and never be applauded.

But I do recognize the irony. 
Because he’s the one who said it was worth it.

Algorithmic America: Tribalism and the cult of social media

This is part of a 3-part series examining the dangerous psychological and social effects of modern social media — and how platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and X have reshaped attention, identity, and ideology. A study into how platforms, group psychology, and cultural decay intersect.

Part 1: The Age of Dumbification
Part 2: All Heil the Peddler of Death
Part 3: Ode to the Second Amendment