Utah Governor Spencer Cox asked young Americans to turn their backs from anger and violence, what became a tribute to Charlie Kirk’s off-cuff.
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- “To my young friends there, you’re inheriting a country where politics feels like anger, and that’s what feels anger is the only option,” said Cox, a Republican.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox pleaded with young Americans to refuse violence after the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk after the announcement that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson had been arrested for what the governor called a “political assassination.”
During a news briefing on September 12th, he nominated Utah resident Robinson as the shooter, and Cox called Kirk killing “an attack on the American experiment.”
At a press conference that took on the sermons and pursuits of the murdered conservative organizers, Cox asked his compatriots to turn his back from the split of anger.
“To my young friends there, you’re inheriting a country where politics feels like anger, and that’s what feels anger is the only option,” said Cox, a Republican.
Through encouraging Kirk’s “rational agreement,” Cox said, “it’s a reminder that we can choose another path.”
Citing the murdered organizer, Cox said: “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.”
“He said,” Cox added, “The weak never forgive.”
Kirk was well known for holding discussions on university campuses around the country and for young people to be on the political left. He was shot dead at an event held at Utah Valley University on September 10th and launched a manhunt for suspected social media fires and murders.
“The young people love Charlie, and the young people hate him,” Cox said. “And Charlie went to those places anyway.”
Cox said he “prayed” that the shooter was not from Utah. “It’s not one of us.” However, he praised the reaction in the wake of a shooting from native Utah, where he said, “There were no riots, no looting, no cars burning up.”
“We can always point our fingers to the other side,” Cox said. “At some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it’s going to be a lot worse.”
