New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez immediately blamed guns and, by extension, Republican inaction on limiting access to certain guns, in the aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and leading conservative advocate Charlie Kirk.
In a video posted by the Daily Caller News Foundation, AOC, surrounded by reporters, deferred to the typical Democratic talking point when asked for her thoughts about her the doomsday rhetoric that her party often uses when describing President Donald Trump and his America First movement.
“You know, beyond rhetoric, we need to talk about action,” she began. “Yes, we need to talk about…there are words…but most importantly, we are in the job of leadership. We are in a job of action. We are in a role, a position, where the American people are looking to us to do something about this.
“Every single day people are dying due to gun violence in America, and every single day, there are people in this building that continue to vote against doing anything,” she added as she pointed to the Capitol behind her.
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Kirk was shot during a collegiate event around 12:20 p.m. local time, according to a statement made by Ellen Treanor, Associate Vice President, Strategic Communication Management at Utah Valley University, to Fox News.
“We had a speaker, Charlie Kirk, who was invited by a student group, Turning Point USA, who was speaking on campus today at noon,” the statement said.
“At about 12:20 shots were fired from a building about 200 yards from the speaker. To the best of our knowledge, the individual was hit and was taken away immediately by his security personnel,” Treanor said. “The campus is closed for the rest of the day and our campus police has a suspect and custody.”
