The unhinged responses to Charlie Kirk’s assassination have been met with a swift backlash across the country, with many companies and public sector institutions firing or disciplining individuals for their egregiously disrespectful reactions.
Now a gun control activist in Illinois is on the hot seat for her comments. As the Illinois Review reports:
A Twin Groves Middle School teacher in Buffalo Grove, Ill., is facing public backlash after posting social media comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — calling his death “ironic” after a friend remarked that “karma is a b**ch.”
“Mel Smith, listen — the irony is thick, right?” commented Carolyn Pinta. The middle school teacher went on to write that the now deceased Kirk “believed in sacrificing a few souls each year to keep his Second Amendment rights.”
Pinta is indeed a middle school teacher, but she also appears to be the head of the Buffalo Grove chapter of Moms Demand Action; a fact uncovered by our friends at Mom-at-Arms, who also pointed out that Pinta was instrumental in blocking a local pro-Second Amendment group from participating in a pride parade back in 2019. Moms Demand had their place in the parade, but members of Operation Blazing Sword and Pink Pistols were forced to the sidelines.
As for Pinta’s snark about the “irony” of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Reason’s J.D. Tuccille put that argument to rest earlier this week. As Tuccille pointed out, Kirk’s comment that “it’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” was a small snippet of a much longer thought about what Tuccille calls “the dangers inherent in liberty.” Here they are:
“The Second Amendment is not about hunting. I love hunting. The Second Amendment is not even about personal defense. That is important. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government….Now, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price—50,000, 50,000, 50,000 people die on the road every year. That’s a price. You get rid of driving, you’d have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving—speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services—is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road.”
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am—I think it’s worth it. I think it’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. That is a prudent deal.”
Kirk was right, and unless Pinta is demanding an end to the Second Amendment and rounding up the roughly 400 million guns in the hands of citizens (which, to be fair, may be exactly what she wants) then she’s tacitly endorsed Kirk’s position as well. Yes, we can and should work to reduce the number of deaths, but we can do so in a way that doesn’t infringe on our liberties.
And let’s be honest. Even if the Second Amendment were repealed tomorrow and replaced with a constitutional amendment that prohibited gun ownership, there would still be gun-related deaths in this country. We wouldn’t become some crime-free utopia. We’d become Mexico; a place where criminals are heavily armed and the average citizen can’t legally get a gun to protect themselves. Some law-abiding citizens would undoubtably become lawbreakers and keep their guns or get one on the black market, as we’ve seen with citizen self-defense groups south of the border.
For all I know Pinta would be okay with that too, or at least find it an acceptable substitute to the status quo. And if that is what she wants, she has a First Amendment right to advocate for it, just like she has a First Amendment right to snark about Kirk’s assassination.
As the left has constantly reminded us over the past few years, though, freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from the consequences of what we say. I’m very curious to learn what both the school district that employs Pinta and Moms Demand Action thinks about her flippant remarks in response to Kirk’s killing. The Illinois Review reports that, to date, the district hasn’t issued a response to Pinta’s remarks, but if parents in the district keep up the pressure that could change.
Editor’s Note: Radical anti-gun activists will stop at nothing to enact their gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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