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As flags are lowered at half mast at the White House for the likes of Charlie Kirk, let’s talk about what went down at Evergreen High in Colorado.
A 16-year-old boy, Desmond Holly, stormed that campus with a revolver like he was on some sick mission—firing, reloading, firing again. Three kids in the hospital, and he turned the gun on himself.
Families ripped apart in the blink of an eye.
Just 16 ya’ll. Christ.
Now, authorities are saying Desmond was radicalized online, soaking up white supremacist garbage.
Sixteen.
A baby.
And folks still wanna act brand new like we don’t know where this poison comes from. Let’s keep it real: this is the same pipeline pushed by Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA crowd.
Kirk’s whole brand had been demeaning Black women, hyping “replacement” theories, laughing at other people’s tragedies, and defending guns at all costs—even saying some deaths are “worth it.”
The result:
Armed with a revolver, Desmond systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the three-level school, trying to find new targets, Kelley said. His exact path through Evergreen High is not yet known, she said, but the teen shooter’s movements were captured by the school’s surveillance cameras. That video is being reviewed by investigators.
“He would fire and reload, fire and reload, fire reload,” Kelley said. “This went on and on.”
How does a child end up believing he’s on a “mission?”
Look no further than the echo chambers Kirk helped build.
That Evergreen shooter may not have had Kirk’s podcast queued up, but the soil was already fertilized with his kind of hate.
Kirk was no saint; he was part of the ecosystem that breeds these tragedies. Which is why, while I detest the way he died, I will never mourn his loss.