During Friday's episode of Huntsville WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) gave his take on Charlie Kirk's assassination and the corresponding trend of increasingly violent actions from Democrats across the country.
The lawmaker explained to host Dale Jackson why he believes the founder of Turning Point USA was killed.
"Charlie Kirk was a threat to the left because he would go toe to toe with those on college campuses who thought they knew it all," Orr said.
"I think it drove them crazy; they saw him as a threat, and that's certainly a very serious thing when someone is targeted because they're effective, and not an elected official. I fully agree with what Senator Katie Britt said, that it was a political assassination. Call it no other, because it was. That is a scary place for our country. But I hate to say that when you have a group of people that have no boundaries, they believe the ends justify the means," he added. "And that is a very, very bad place for our country."
Orr also pointed to two aggravating factors worsening the volatile rhetoric and attacks.
"Social media helps that along," Orr explained. "The mainstream media helped that along by giving one narrative or trying to push one side, and that creates problems as well in the minds of people."
"It stays on my mind, and as we said, it's probably only going to get worse," he added.
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