Utah university shooting live: Charlie Kirk killer's weapon found

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : President Trump has announced that he will award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, at a September 11 memorial at the Pentagon.
60% : One student remained in critical condition, while another had non-life-threatening injuries.
55% : Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives.
49% : The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, said that "political violence should have no place in society". Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said: "I regarded him as a friend.
46% : "I believe that he and no one else had a great impact on Donald Trump choosing JD Vance as his running mate.
43% : "The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
41% : President Trump recorded a video message from the Oval Office, where he vowed his administration would track down the suspect.
35% : The prime minister added that we must be "free to debate openly and freely without fear -- there can be no justification for political violence".
32% : They include the assassination of a Minnesota state representative and her husband in June; an arson attack at the Pennsylvania governor's house in April; and two assassination attempts on Trump himself -- one that left him with a grazed ear during a campaign event in July last year, and another two months later, which was foiled by federal agents.
28% : Hal Lambert, a Republican donor and the founder and CEO of Point Bridge Capital, told Times Radio's Andrew Neil certain elements of "the left" had demonised Kirk, President Trump and Elon Musk as "Nazis".
24% : " Trump blamed the attack on "radical left political violence", which he also said was behind the shooting that nearly killed him during his presidential campaign in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, as well as the murder of "a healthcare executive" in New York City.
22% : Trump announced about two hours later that he had died.
21% : These are media hosts referring to Trump and Charlie Kirk as a Nazi.
19% : Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016.
19% : "Has Donald Trump gone too far?" he asked rhetorically.
19% : "The truth is this: If you dislike the West and if you hate the West's values, if you think the West is evil fundamentally and deserves to be destroyed, then anything Donald Trump does, basically, short of surrender will be too far for you.
19% : President Trump has called Kirk a "martyr for truth and freedom" and blamed the attack on "radical left political violence" in a video posted on his social media site Truth Social.
18% : Trump did not mention the politically motivated murder of Minnesota's Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in June.
15% : These are politicians that are referring to Donald Trump as Nazi.
15% : There have been more than 300 cases of politically motivated violent crimes across the ideological spectrum since supporters of Trump attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to the Reuters news agency -- the most sustained period of political violence in America since the 1970s.

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