Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.
A day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a FIRE survey of 68,000 college students at 257 universities, was released and it revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable.
2% or 1,360 students believed that violence to stop speech they opposed was “always acceptable”. 13% found it “sometimes acceptable” so that over 10,000 students find violence against campus speakers acceptable some of the time. When combined with the 19% who say violence is rarely, but sometimes, acceptable, that’s over 23,000 college students who were willing to answer that using violence against speakers they disliked was a valid option.
Projecting and generalizing this large sample size to the much larger number of 18 million of college students across the country would translate into support for violently shutting down campus speakers by between 2.7 million and 6.1 million college students.
Another 54% or more than half, support blocking students from attending campus speeches they oppose, and 71% back shouting down speakers.
A majority of college students not only oppose free speech, but support intervening to stop it.
What kind of views do they support shutting down by any means necessary? 74% believe speakers who view transgenderism as a mental illness should 60% believe in blocking abortion opponents. 76% believe in banning anyone who says BLM is a hate group.
Charlie Kirk believed all of these things and was willing to come to campus and say it, challenging students to come and debate him, until the debate was ended finally and fatally.
He’s dead because 1 in 3 students support using violence to silence opposing speakers.
His killing though was not some aberration. It was not, no matter how much the media will try to portray it, the equivalent of John Hinckley shooting Reagan. One killing anywhere can be an aberration but generations of violence incubated by professors and deans on campus, some of whom openly admire terrorists and urge students to imitate them, is not random chance.
It’s a culture of terrorism that is now approaching its murderous apex.
A generation before Kirk’s murder, conservative speakers were already learning to avoid campuses. When David Horowitz toured college campuses, he faced harassment, threats, and attacks, forcing him to invest in expensive security. By the time a new generation of speakers like Ben Shapiro were coming to campuses, security expenses had skyrocketed and colleges routinely used the threat of violence by their own students to shut down conservative events.
The media attacked Horowitz, Kirk and other campus speakers as ‘provocateurs’ as if they were the ones bringing the violence to campus, rather than exposing the readiness of all too many college students to turn to violence in order to stop them from being heard by other students. --->READ MORE HERE
Charlie Kirk is dead.
The founder of Turning Point USA was fatally shot by a sniper while speaking at Utah Valley University. Authorities are investigating the killing as a politically motivated assassination. For years, Kirk warned that escalating antisemitism spreading across campuses was not simply about free expression. His death tragically proves the point: Rhetoric has turned lethal.
New data from FIRE shows just how dangerous this moment has become. According to their latest survey, one-third of Stanford students now say violence is justifiable to stop speech they dislike. These are the young students who will soon lead our institutions. When campuses normalize rhetoric that demonizes and legitimizes harm toward Jews and supporters of Israel, they teach students to see violence as acceptable political action.
For months, we’ve been told that chants echoing through quads are merely symbolic. But phrases like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are calls for Israel’s destruction, the eradication of its Jewish population, and the murder of Jewish Zionists globally. When Jewish students hear these words, they understand the message: You do not belong here, and you are not safe.
One of the most chilling examples is Unity of Fields, a group that was welcomed to the Sarah Lawrence College campus. Unity of Fields is not a peaceful protest organization. It is a radical direct-action network that trains students in violent tactics. Earlier this year, its members stormed Columbia University’s library, distributing pamphlets glorifying terrorists. Two campus safety officers were injured, and nearly 80 people were arrested.
Investigators uncovered a 14-page sabotage manual circulated by Unity of Fields providing explicit instructions: how to buy sledgehammers with cash, clog campus pipes with concrete, evade law enforcement, and coordinate attacks. When a Jewish couple was murdered at the DC Jewish Museum, Unity of Fields praised the killer online, calling the attack an “act of solidarity and love” and sharing his manifesto. MEMRI documented how the group created a “Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee” to glorify the murderer. This is terror recruitment masquerading as campus activism. --->READ MORE HERE
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