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He got shot at a distance. There is literally no other information. wtf they mean, "professional sniper"?
Loser on camera cited this logic:
- One shot and he dead.
- 200 meters.
- They got away.
All of which is compatible with it just being someone who has practiced with a long range rifle, like a .308 hunting rifle, which I bet includes a very large percentage of people in Utah. And someone who decided to not get caught. It's not like it's that difficult, just move fast, cover your face, and enter your vehicle away from cameras. Cops and security are incredibly incompetent, all they know how to do is shoot minorities and people in crisis and shit themselves when an acorn drops in their vicinity.
I think all this "professional sniper" bollocks is because they're scared of criticism, but I'm only very vaguely aware of the person shot.
calling my shot now: Charlie was killed by a Mossad sniper as a sacrifice to pull attention away from the Epstein birthday book stuff, and to rile up the right wing base for further violence against the left
my very very circumstantial evidence: one very accurate single shot from a confident shooter from 200 yards away, someone who clearly knew their weapon and knew how to make a clean getaway, either alone or with help. Netanyahu's tweets regarding the shooting, ~~which took place in the early morning hours in Palestine time, around 1-3am~~ (my math is wrong on this one). Up until a few weeks ago, Chuck wanted the Epstein files released. He walked this one back but it might not have been enough to save him.
come back to me in 20 years when this all comes to light and tell me I was right.
I’m trying not to conspire, but wow was this a great way to wipe the headlines clean of all talk about Israel bombing Qatar - it seemed like Israel was getting more flak from the bourgeois media for that than attacking Iran
I'm not wholly convinced by this, but if this was the case Kirk makes a sensible target.
He's always at massive events with little serious security, it ties into Israeli fears of violence on campuses, his a high profile pundit but not really an 'activist' in any kind of essential role for the MAGA/international fascist project.
But most of all, while still being a pro-Israel ghoul, he's been pissing off Israeli hardliners the last month or so. He stated that some of the crackdowns on any anti-Israel sentiment go too far and risk his sacred 'free speech'. He was entertaining the idea publicly that Epstein was being run by Mossad. He's been on Megan Kelly's show and others to talk about how the Israeli hardliners on the right are going too far in attacking him, pushing people like him away, saying they're overly paranoid etc. Apart from getting some ultra-hardcore-zionist backlash on social media for that there's been a couple of critical articles of him in places like The Times of Israel in recent months too.
So if Israel or someone associated with it we're going to pick an 'ally' to use for something like that, he'd be a good choice.
I think they'll pin this on a fall guy that fits their narrative.
his a high profile pundit but not really an 'activist' in any kind of essential role for the MAGA
I disagree on this. He was basically the biggest "independent" media voice among those that are tied to MAGA at the hip, hence the famous "I trust my friends in the government [Trump's White House]" for why he was swearing off the Epstein stuff.
I think the violence on campuses thing is also a stretch here, but otherwise I agree. Nonetheless, I think Shapiro is a better target in every respect other than being the Israel hardliner of the online left, including being Jewish so the attack could be spun as "antisemitism," so I think if it was on the initiative of the White House and not Mossad, he's a much better target.
We also have Trump's 
attempted assassin going on trial today.
And wants to be the next 
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Not to rain on your theory, but your math is indeed wrong.
Europe is at minimum 5 hours ahead of the US in Portugal, 6 in central Europe and then 7 in Palestine. Utah is 2 hours away from the East Coast. Charlie got shot at around noon Utah time making that, like 9pm local time for Netanyahu, prime posting hours.
Is it true that Kirk was originally Trump-skeptical during the latest round of Epstein stuff before saying "actually I trust the government"?
Kinda but not really. Charlie Kirk was the kind of grifter who doesn't believe in much of anything, he will say whatever benefits him the most at any given moment. Right-wing audiences generally aren't happy with how Trump is handling the Epstein stuff, and there's a noticeable rift in right-wing influencers between those who tow the government line no matter what (Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool) and those who say what their audience wants to hear (Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens). Outside of Epstein, this is also very noticeable when it comes to Israel.
Kirk got yelled at by his audience when he first tried to defend Trump from the latest Epstein news so he caved a little until, if I recall correctly, he got a direct phone call from Trump himself and fell back in line. I don't think his personal beliefs factored in anywhere. There are right-wing influencers who genuinely believe what they say, but Kirk wasn't one of them.
It's worth considering, but security personnel do sometimes have hand signals as normal operating procedure for a litany of reasons, like not cluttering comms, not creating undesired noise (he was right next to Kirk who was speaking in public and taking questions), not competing with ambient noise, and being understood over distance without needing to again cause one of the aforementioned problems. Most security people are going to be formerly military or police, where such signals are commonly used (or at least taught, in the case of cops). It's also part of the "operate" aesthetic that those piggies love.
While it narratively looks right to have a dude signal for the attack right next to the target, like Judas betraying Jesus by kissing him, I don't think there's really all that much reason for there to be signals down to a "fire now" from someone right next to Kirk when the event is highly public, has many uncontrolled cameras on it, Kirk mostly isn't really moving during the presentation anyway (he was sitting down), and we don't have reason to think that exact moment is an especially good time compared to 30 seconds earlier or later, plus the dude was not trying to conceal the gestures at all. It would be absurd for someone to blatantly produce a hand gesture that was covertly to tell the shooter to fire when he was so close to Kirk and therefore sure to be caught on camera like he was.
Overall, I think it's extremely unlikely, though again it's a question worth asking. I agree with the other commenter that being startled isn't a strike against the theory, but there are too many other factors against it.
This is just the first assassination since we started telling people to get some range time in before they go adventurizing
Well, maybe the second 
ended up not mattering but the thing where his gun didn't cycle because of the extra weight hanging off the barrel is also a solved problem with several options: use a different kind of handgun where the barrel doesn't need to move, use a little "booster" doohickey so the action doesn't have to move the whole mass of the suppressor to cycle, or tune all the working parts to account for the suppressor (and then don't shoot the thing unsuppressed because it'll have too much gas)
As someone who played a lot of sniper games I can confidently say this is bullshit.
A professional sniper would aim for the balls for the humiliation.
average am*rican is such a bad shot that anyone hitting anything beyond point blank must be a tier 1 operator
The shooter was Chris Kyle reincarnated, which is why he shot kirk in the neck, he practiced his shooting on children who have smaller bodies
Body language expert weighs in, "Charlie Kirk displayed signs of being dead at time of assassination."
"no it was definitely the radical left trust me"
Also the radical left hates guns and wants to take away your guns,
Wait, how does a "security expert" know hallmarks of a professional sniper? Hmmmmmm
Yeah yeah yeah 🙄
Quite honestly anyone can practice and learn how to shoot a gun. There are tutorials online
That "security team" needed Balboni and Tommy Toughknuckles down their to run their shit!
- "Think of it as a form of critique."
It was obvious. He shots from the neck to a painful death instead of a headshot an instant death.
Headshot is less likely to kill him lol
Did he really stay conscious long enough to feel pain?
Nah. You can see in the video (which is obviously incredibly graphic and I wouldn't recommend anyone watch) he immediately passes out. The shot effectively ripped open his carotid artery causing his head to dump blood and his heart to pump out all of his blood. He was passed out within one or two seconds. I'd suspect dead in under a minute due to no oxygen to the brain.
realistically probably not, there was a lot of blood like 2 seconds after the shot 
Most likely not, with this amount of blood he must have lost consciousness before shock passed.
What a compliment. 
Alleged weapon found at scene (given by NY Post)
Mauser M18 .30-06 bolt action. Nothing exotic. You can get one at a sporting goods store. I'm going to go with the user not gauging the distance and they were aiming for his temple but it dropped to his neck. If they zeroed it in for 200m, it shouldn't have dropped that much.