{"id":22328,"date":"2025-12-05T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22328"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:59:33","slug":"erika-kirk-explains-why-husband-charlie-being-fatally-shot-is-not-a-gun-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22328","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk explains why husband Charlie being fatally shot is not a &#8216;gun problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Charlie Kirk&#8217;s widow has insisted American doesn&#8217;t have a &#8216;gun problem&#8217;.For those in need of a reminder, the right-wing activist was fatally shot back in September at a Republican rally he hosted at Utah Valley University.Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspected shooter, is believed to have fired a single bullet at 31-year-old Kirk in the presence of 3,000 spectators, including his wife Erika, with whom he shared a three-year-old daughter, and a son, one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the heartache that she and her children have endured in the wake of Kirk&#8217;s death, his widow doesn&#8217;t believe that guns should take any element of the blame.Instead, appearing at the The New York Times&#8217; Dealbook Conference on Wednesday (3 December), she hit out at Robinson&#8217;s state of mind, as well as divisive politics in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kirk&#8217;s widow has insisted American doesn&#8217;t have a &#8216;gun problem&#8217;.For those in need of a reminder, the right-wing activist was fatally shot back in September at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":123,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22330,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22328\/revisions\/22330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}