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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Kirk Alleged Assassin From Republican Family Stewed in Gun Culture
Friday, September 12, 2025 at 10:00:00a CDT
This is not the story right wing haters wanted.
The Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal already have stories that Tyler Robinson is from a Republican family and it was steeped in gun culture. Robinson registered as a non-partisan voter. Watching Fox since they are promoting hate every day, and all they can talk about is the anti-fascist markings on the bullets. As for all of this, crickets.
www.wsj.com/... (The suspect in the assassination of conservative activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has in the past registered as a nonpartisan voter in Utah, public records show. Tyler Robinson, 22, has two parents registered as Republicans.) (sry if paywall)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15086467/Tyler-Robinson-Charlie-Kirk-killer-identified-Utah-Trump.html
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/12/2343167/-Charlie-Kirk-Assassin-From-Republican-Family-Stewed-in-Gun-Culture?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
I guess the "Wimpy assed Liberals" are getting guns now?

Botany
(75,307 posts) He also posed with guns in his childhood, which included a M2 Browning 50. caliber gun.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220633400
leftstreet
(37,255 posts)berniesandersmittens
(12,537 posts)Just watch. They'll still find a way to blame the left for this.
Boy grows up entrenched in gun culture, QOP family influences - but somehow the left turned him into a bad man.
still-prayin4rain
(504 posts)from a video game.
Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)I've started to see a bunch of speculation about it, but no confirmation.
herding cats
(19,841 posts)From what I've seen there's zero supporting evidence.
Ilsa
(63,292 posts)still-prayin4rain
(504 posts)podcaster, Nick Fuentes.
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/groyper-army-and-america-first
" The Groypers focus on Turning Point USA stems primarily from their dislike of founder Charlie Kirk, who they consider insufficiently pro-white. Among their grievances: Kirk has spoken out against white supremacy and dismissed Ashley St. Clair, a TPUSA associate who was photographed at a dinner event attended by Fuentes.
Kirk is pro-Israel, and Groypers oppose Israel and are generally antisemitic. Groypers are also angry that Kirk has invited black conservatives and gay conservatives to TPUSA events as speakers. They believe Kirk is a hypocrite who doesnt truly want to advance an America First, agenda which, for the Groypers, means whites first. And finally, they believe Kirk does not support free speech."
Ilsa
(63,292 posts)Cha
(314,374 posts)to get why those Groyers don't like Kirk.
Tyler Robinson took it to the extreme. maga on maga.
Cha
(314,374 posts)they didn't like Kirk?
TY!
still-prayin4rain
(504 posts)podcaster, Nick Fuentes.
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/groyper-army-and-america-first
" The Groypers focus on Turning Point USA stems primarily from their dislike of founder Charlie Kirk, who they consider insufficiently pro-white. Among their grievances: Kirk has spoken out against white supremacy and dismissed Ashley St. Clair, a TPUSA associate who was photographed at a dinner event attended by Fuentes.
Kirk is pro-Israel, and Groypers oppose Israel and are generally antisemitic. Groypers are also angry that Kirk has invited black conservatives and gay conservatives to TPUSA events as speakers. They believe Kirk is a hypocrite who doesnt truly want to advance an America First, agenda which, for the Groypers, means whites first. And finally, they believe Kirk does not support free speech."
Cha
(314,374 posts)I never saw the word Groyers before now. Guess I wasn't paying enough attention. And, what a name..
Now Tyer Robinson has gone and Done It!
SheltieLover
(73,649 posts)
Silent Type
(11,125 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)Silent Type
(11,125 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)Some reports say he was a registered Republican. If not, he was unaffiliated. He is definitely NOT a Democrat. There is absolutely no evidence that points to him being a "leftist" whatsoever.
Silent Type
(11,125 posts)I'm not much for makins stuff up like GOPers.
LeftInTX
(33,935 posts)His bullets had engravings, but it remains to be seen what was going on.
Silent Type
(11,125 posts)Personally, I think he's just another disturbed 22 year old with guns and a yearning to be noticed.
LeftInTX
(33,935 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,257 posts)We have a crisis with White Supremacists tearing our country apart.
Silent Type
(11,125 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,837 posts)And whatever his (if this really is him and not a brother or something) "8 year countdown" is, the shooting only missed it by a couple of months.
I tried looking up his full name but no luck but I don't have time this morning for a deep dive.
Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-family-what-we-know-about-mom-amber-jones-robinson-dad-matthew-2128943
In the post, the mother named the boys as Austin and Logan. In the post, she said that Austin was starting his junior year of high school while Logan was starting his freshman year.
BamaRefugee
(3,837 posts)sarisataka
(22,000 posts)pre-9/11 my unit did one yearly in conjunction with Army Reserve and National Guard units. It was common to have a thousand or more people show up.
StarryNite
(11,845 posts)It could have meant if you're anti-fascist, catch (get shot by) the bullet.
Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)There's nothing to indicate he held general anti fascist views
StarryNite
(11,845 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)Other shells had different messages engraved on them, including "Notices bulge / OWO whats this?" a reference to a meme about furries and online role-play
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According to Google's AI Overview:
Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has made statements suggesting Helldivers 2's satire on totalitarianism was an experiment to see if a community could be "brainwashed" into supporting a fascist state, which he described as a means to educate players about totalitarian regimes and their manipulation tactics through irony and satire.
He later clarified:
Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt revealed at the Game Developers Conference in March 2025, the United Nations contacted the development team regarding giving a talk related to the concept of psychological defense against manipulation. Pilestedt stated, "We do it all in fun and good spirits, and we actually try to get people to recognize the science of what is a totalitarian state. If you start wearing the same uniform as everybody else and do salutes constantly, you might be in a totalitarian regime".
StarryNite
(11,845 posts)Based on that we don't really know what the shooter was thinking with that message.
Wiz Imp
(7,143 posts)supports typical anti fascist views.

sop
(16,036 posts)As we learn more about the suspected shooter's background, it's also becoming clear Trump, Patel, Governor Cox and the rest of the rightwing establishment were just spreading disinformation and inciting violence.
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Aristus
(70,871 posts)
Join the Army, dickhead! Oh! That's right! They don't accept criminals anymore.
I'm so fucking over the gunfucks and their "look at ME!" tough guy cosplay...
LetMyPeopleVote
(169,813 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,257 posts)BigmanPigman
(53,770 posts)Norrrm
(2,985 posts)Christian, gun rights supporter, Second Amendment solution. republican family, straight, non-trans, non-democrat conservative doing a 'favor' to Trump?
Kirk has been publicly against Trump on releasing the Epstein files.
malaise
(289,109 posts)The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said, "For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person (who murdered Charlie Kirk) was from another country. That he was not one of us because we are not like that. But it was one of us."
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It is usually one of you Governor
Traildogbob
(11,821 posts)Get the $100,000 reward for turning in the son, that He groomed for guns and probably bought the weapons he loved so much then used one of them to murder Charles?
Who will be the GQP Lawyer to defend the killer of GQP Jesus? One of trumps finest? Judge Jenny the Fox wine box freak, now in the trump cult cabinet?