Erika Kirk Hits Back At People Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death: 'Tell That To My 3-Year-Old Daughter' - Watch Video

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Erika Kirk, the wife on slain conservative figure Charlie Kirk, recent spoke out about how many people across the US justified her husband's assassination, saying that the activist "deserved" to die for his controversial views.

In an interview with CBS, Kirk's bereaved widow hit out at those justifying her husband's death saying, "You're sick. He's a human being. You think he deserved that? Tell that to my 3-year-old daughter."

"You want to watch in hi-res the video of my husband being murdered... and laugh and say that he deserved it? There's something very sick in your soul and I pray that God saves you," a teary-eyed Erika told CBS in a special titled 'A Town Hall with Erika Kirk'.

"...I pray because that is what is so wrong: the internet and this world has dehumanized us," Erika further said.

Erika's comments to CBS, which came days after the posthumous release of Kirk's last book Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life, echo what she had said during her husband's memorial service, where she very notably forgave the shooter.

“My husband, he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life. That man, that young man – I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it is what Charlie would do,” Erika had said in September.

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Right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on 10 September 2025 while addressing a crowd in the campus of the Utah Valley University.

While speaking at the venue, Kirk was shot from a distance of 130 metres, with the bullet hitting the 31-year-old in the neck.

Although no immediate arrest was made, the shooter, 22-year-old Tyler James Robinson, was apprehended a day later after his parents recognised his likeness from images of the shooter that authorities had circulated.

Robinson has since been charged with aggravated murder, with prosecutors saying they would seek a death penalty for the 22-year-old.

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Kirk's assassination and the varied reactions it garnered-from horror and grief for supporters to glee and celebration for detractors-also highlighted the how political divides in the US had festered into something sinister.

Thousands of people on social media celebrated Kirk's death, saying that the right-wing activist's controversial views on issues ranging from gender to gun ownership deserved to be shut down, through violence if necessary.

It also came after a series of incidents of political violence in the US, including the June 2025 shootings of two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, the May 2025 killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC, and the April 2025 arson attack on the residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

The incidents in 2025 were preceded by other acts of political violence the year before, including the December 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, as well as they assassination attempt on current US President Donald Trump in July 2024.

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