Narrative Failure in the Charlie Kirk Shooting
BY Herschel Smith
3 hours, 31 minutes ago
There are a whole lot of unanswered questions. The reason for this is obvious: something foul is afoot. I don’t claim to know who took the shot, or from what angle, or with what caliber weapon, or for what reason.
But here are the things I know with an extremely high degree of certainty. Charlie Kirk was not shot with a 30-06 rifle. His head would have been decapitated from his body if he had been. If you follow my X account you would know I have said this from the beginning. My belief hasn’t changed. The deer you’re getting ready to shoot this fall wouldn’t survive your high powered rifle shots (30-06, 300 Win Mag, 7mm Rem Mag, 7mm PRC) if they were wearing AR500 armor plates.
Here is something else I know with a high degree of certainty. That kid whom they blamed didn’t take down a rifle, stow parts of it in a backpack (that by the way wouldn’t be able to fully enclose the parts anyway), reconfigure it on any building, change his clothes, take a shot, disassemble the rifle again and stow it in a backpack, and drop in anywhere.
Here is something I know with probable certainty (by that I mean more probable than not). That kid they’re blaming didn’t take the kill shot. He may have played a role in some part of the events of that day, up to and including being a scapegoat or patsy, but he didn’t kill Charlie Kirk. I also know with probably certainty that there is no medium in the body in the vicinity in which he was shot that would cause a deflection away from a close exit.
Someone else did. I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that we will ever know the truth. But if I were on a jury, with the current narrative (the kid shot Charlie with a 30-06 round and the bullet didn’t leave the body, i.e., there was no exit wound, rather, the bullet stopped just under his skin), I would never convict him. It’s sinful to convict men of crimes because you don’t like them.
On September 28, 2025 at 11:27 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Re: “There are a whole lot of unanswered questions. The reason for this is obvious: something foul is afoot. I don’t claim to know who took the shot, or from what angle, or with what caliber weapon, or for what reason.”
The claim that a 30-06 was used for the fatal shot has been ridiculous on its face since it first appeared. The alleged murder weapon, an old military-surplus Mauser K98K re-barreled to 30-06, would have inflicted a far more-violent and visibly dramatic death upon the poor victim than actually happened.
Let’s work backwards: A typical 30-06 hunting load using a 150-grain full-metal jacket (FMJ) at a MV of ~ 2900 fps (which would be typical from a 24-26″ barrel), has 2801 ft-lbs. of kinetic energy at the muzzle. The allegedly fatal shot was taken 175-200 yards away. At that distance, the shot has ~ 2100-2000 ft-lbs. of kinetic energy, depending on the precise distance.
That amount of KE is considered more than double the amount necessary to ethically harvest an adult white-tail deer. And it is sufficient energy to severe a limb from the human body or remove/obliterate the human head entirely.
Those are the sort of terminal ballistics which can be expected from a bone-standard 30-06 hunting load of the kind you can buy in any sporting goods store in America during fall hunting season.
Whatever it was that ended Kirk’s life, it was not a full-power 30-06 load. Period. Full Stop.
Strictly based upon visual evidence, the fatal wound was likely inflicted by something relatively low-powered, such as a small-caliber handgun or its equivalent.
It may have been caused by a non-standard munition custom-made for the operation; don’t forget that if Kirk died at the hands of perpetrators affiliated or working with a nation-state government – that opens up the possibility of all sorts of exotic and non-standard weapons being used.
Re: “I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that we will ever know the truth.”
There is a strong likelihood that professionals were responsible for this assassination. The trade-craft is too strong, too well-done, for it to be an amateur – even a fairly gifted one. The confusion and proliferation of theories as to the specifics of the act ~ are probably part and parcel of the operation.
The black bag boys have been doing ops of this kind for years going back eighty years to WW2; they’re extremely proficient at them by now. Since there is no way of hiding the public death of someone like Kirk, they seek to obfuscate things in such a way that everything seems confused and questionable – and nothing seems certain or provable.
By muddying up the waters, they create an environment in which everyone’s conspiracy theory seems plausible and correct. And if everyone’s theory is true, then no one’s theory is true!
We’ve seen this dynamic before, in the assassinations of JFK and RFK, MLK and other public figures.
How long before the feds create a “blue ribbon panel” – a “committee of experts” whose job it is – is to get to the bottom of the question of who killed Charlie Kirk? Back then, the public saw the Warren Report at face value; these fine men will get to the bottom of things! – but the real reason such panels and committees are created is not to uncover the truth, but to hide it, to bury it. Or at very least, to buy time for the event to fall out of the headlines and for the public to forget about it and move on to other concerns.
By the time the commission issued its findings, life and events had moved on. Apart from a few diehard investigators on the fringes of things, life moved on. It took years, decades, before a significant number of influential people began questioning the official narrative of Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963 – and the nation still hasn’t dealt with it properly in 2025!