”We should have an honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one. You will never live in a society where you have an armed citizenry and not a single gun death. That is nonsense, it’s drivel. But 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.”

His remarks came just a week after a shooter killed three children and three adults at Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. He had also spoken about the Uvalde, Texas school shooting in May 2022, calling it an “act of evil” on his podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show:

“There’s moments in time. And there are stories that happen where you just take a pause and the evil that is committed is just so overwhelming. It almost like ruins your day and it just impacts everything you do. And it kind of dominates the conversation for the time being between your friends and family members.”