Comedian and car enthusiast Jay Leno has labeled the assassination of Charlie Kirk as “the death of free speech.”
Leno expressed his views during a recent interview on The Tim Conway Jr. Show on KFI 640 in Los Angeles.
“It’s not a random shooting. I mean, it’s the death of free speech,” Leno stated.
He elaborated, “To think that you are so illiterate and so stupid you can’t answer verbally, and you have to shoot somebody with a gun to win the argument.”
In a clip shared on Twitter, Leno reflected on the decline of vibrant debate, noting, “But this is a political assassination of a man I didn’t necessarily agree with, but I certainly enjoyed listening to because, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that.’ I don’t have to agree on everything.”
He continued, “We’re in a point in this country where if you don’t agree with everybody and everything, you take out a gun and you shoot them, and especially on a college campus?”
“I enjoy listening to the other side because that’s how I get smarter,” Leno added, acknowledging Kirk’s intellect and respectful demeanor towards differing opinions.
“It’s very unsettling. This one really struck me. Every time someone’s assassinated, but it’s really the death of free speech,” he concluded.
Kirk was shot while engaging in a debate with liberal college students at an event in Utah on Wednesday. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been arrested and charged with capital murder, facing the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.
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