{"id":13549,"date":"2025-12-09T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:47:06","slug":"erika-kirk-explains-why-she-doesnt-feel-america-has-a-gun-problem-despite-husband-charlies-assassination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13549","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk explains why she doesn\u2019t feel America has \u2018a gun problem\u2019 despite husband Charlie\u2019s assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"306\">Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in September, leaving his wife, Erika, a widow and mother of two. A 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"575\">Despite her husband\u2019s assassination, Erika Kirk insists the tragedy isn\u2019t a gun issue, but a deeper human and societal one. Speaking publicly as the new CEO of Turning Point America, she vowed to continue Charlie\u2019s mission, stating his voice \u201cwill never be silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"772\">At a recent conference, Erika reaffirmed her support for the Second Amendment, arguing that the real problem lies in growing political division and people turning to violence instead of dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in September, leaving his wife, Erika, a widow and mother of two. A 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder. Despite her husband\u2019s assassination, Erika Kirk insists the tragedy isn\u2019t a gun issue, but a deeper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13549\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Erika Kirk explains why she doesn\u2019t feel America has \u2018a gun problem\u2019 despite husband Charlie\u2019s assassination&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13551,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions\/13551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}