Collection: All The News That’s Fit To Write

Format: Bluesky Thread
Read: 600 Words | 2 Min
Date: Sep 14, 2025
Author: Melissa Nadia Viviana

Tags: Gun Violence, Charlie Kirk, American Epidemic

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OPEN LETTER: To Conservatives compiling databases of people who don’t express sadness at Kirk’s death in order to call their employers & get them fired.

I realize you feel self-righteous about this. But on sheer statistics, alone, you are completely fucking delusional. 

Let’s dive in: 👇

American Gun Statistics:

STAT: 45,000 Americans die from gun-related injuries each year

STAT: 20,000 gun-related homicides per year

STAT: 25,000 gun-related suicides per year

STAT: 620 lives taken in mass shootings per year

(we’re at only 255, which means 300 more lives will be lost by the end of the year)

STAT: 1,600 children & teens are killed by gun per year

If it was a requirement for Americans to have empathy for shooting victims in order to hold a job, we’d ALL be jobless. 100% of us.

Someone dies by a gun every 11 minutes in America. Every single year.

Charlie Kirk was one of those people. One of 20,000 people maliciously shot each year.

20,000 Americans killed by guns every year left behind families to grapple with the pain. 

If each one had only 5 relatives who loved them, that’s 100,000 Americans every year feeling a profound sense of loss, grief, & unbearable pain. 

(225,000 if you count suicide).

The only way to acknowledge this is by practicing empathy.

But Kirk practiced empathy for none of those gun victims. 

He called them a necessary reality in order to provide the god-given right to own guns.

So when he died, HE became a necessary reality in order to provide someone else that god-given right.

He died as he lived. In martyrdom for the statistics.

I’ve cared about gun deaths for 20 years. I’ve mourned the senseless deaths every year since I was 17.

I don’t feel empathy for Charlie Kirk.

Should I be fired?

More to the point: if I’ve expressed empathy for shooting victims at 50x the rate that you have… why would I be the one on the list?

That’s like if you smoked pot 20,000 times, but you called someone’s employer to get them fired for smoking pot once.

Charlie Kirk is no more important than any of those lives lost. He is only more important to YOU—because your life is narcissistically revolved around your own emotions.

Was it you, who claimed “thoughts and prayers” were sufficient to heal the grief of anybody traumatized?

Only to find out that when it was your trauma, you actually craved Action? Closure? Control? and Retribution?

Was it you who decided that the hearts of the left must hold a great evil for them to not express empathy for Kirk…

But your heart didn’t hold evil for you to feel nothing for the 180,000 people who came before him?

So… you’re maliciously compiling databases to punish people for having no empathy for Kirk?

I’d like to ask: 

When are you going to be on your own database?

Stats compiled via: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org