By JACKIE TAYLOR | September 17, 2025

Charlie Kirk 

Oct. 14, 1993 – Sept. 10, 2025

Many may have seen the movie, Tora! Tora! Tora! where Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan, stated, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Well, a young deviant man has done the same thing to our nation, and the world, after he martyred Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last Wednesday. The hate-filled young man chose to use a 30.06 to end the life of a man that realized college students are being mind-controlled by left-leaning professors bent on radicalizing them on life, liberty and Jesus.

I was at work when I received a text that Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck; at that point, it was a surface wound. The next look on news networks was word that Kirk had died of the bullet wound that destroyed his carotid artery and killed him in seconds.

I don’t have to describe to many of you how I felt; the utter hollowness and pain were hard to fathom. Apparently, my desire to go to church was not uncommon as prayer vigils on street corners grew, churches filled and people fell to their knees to cry out to Jesus to help them through the pain.

Charlie Kirk was a human being who loved Jesus with his whole heart; his biggest desire was to be a good and faithful servant to God Almighty – and he accomplished that. He brought thousands of college kids to Christ and opened their minds to what a life of joy could be like, not a life of bondage to whatever liberal, sinful deviant behavior is the weirdness de’ jour.

Charlie’s funeral has not been held yet; the memorial service is scheduled to be held at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Sept. 21. The stadium holds 60,000 people and President Trump has mentioned he’d like to be there. I foresee standing room only and the parking lot surrounding the stadium full as well.

The shooter thought he was shutting the mouth of a conservative activist that he hated. On the contrary, he awakened millions of people who decided they will not be silenced; rather, they are stepping up to speak out against liberal, left-leaning ideologies and proclaiming Christ as their Lord.

Like touted in the movie and Admiral Yamamoto, the shooter awakened a sleeping giant.

Conservatives were jailed Jan. 6 in the name of a hoax ‘insurrection’; they’ve been targeted by the IRS for their beliefs. The Department of Justice was weaponized against many people, President Trump included, and laws ignored that are for the greater good of our nation.

Evil is being rooted out and like cornered, rabid animals the Left is fighting back with guns. I mentioned this on Facebook the other night – it’s interesting that we didn’t hear Senators in D.C. crying out for gun control after Kirk was murdered. 

Common sense gun control, as AOC states, is not taking our guns away; it’s protecting our right to bear firearms as our forefathers intended.

Kirk was martyred as he was proclaiming Christ; the world didn’t see our cities burned down, bricks thrown, businesses broken into and looted. The Right doesn’t do that sort of thing – what you saw were great numbers of people praying for our nation and crying out to God for justice.

I know, sure as I write this, that there are good Democrats out there – I know some of them. It is time for both the Right and Left to begin calling out the fringe lunatic edges that need mental health help. It is time we stand for what is right, good and Godly; we need to begin saying something if we see something that is evil, wrong or setting up to create chaos and death.

Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA; chapters are spread across college campuses. After his death, Turning Point USA chapters went from approximately 25,000 in number to 38,000 in one week. Young people, both Democrat and Republican, realized that their voices were trying to be silenced, and they have decided a different path in expanding a conservative organization that focuses on free speech, freedom of religion and bringing truthful conversation to young people.

Charlie Kirk will go down as a martyr; he died for Christ. And, he will forever be remembered as the one that started the revival among American, and world, young people who don’t want to be silenced.

Charlie now walks with Jesus; Charlie’s wife, Erika, a force to be reconned with in her own right, has to deal with two young babies and a life without her husband. She knows Jesus, she’s smart, and she believes in what Charlie was doing. Turning Point USA will not end with Charlie’s death – it’s on the precipice of even greater things.

May God bless their efforts and open even more eyes to the evil that was creeping amongst our young people. God bless Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA; they didn’t silence Charlie – they awakened a sleeping giant.