The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

How does "the society" make 9-11 worse?

Yesterday, Wednesday, September 10th, started out as dreary day. The murder of that young Ukrainian legal immigrant Iryna Urutska was still leading the headlines of the day, yet as awful as that story was the day was going to get much worse, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Between the two stories, the "hey, it's the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks" story was almost completely pushed out of the headlines.

I've read a cross section of the blogs today, as I assume most of you have. Virtually everyone I've looked at is echoing the idea that the left has apparently decided that murder is an acceptable political tactic. There's just too much of it to ignore any longer. Online, the reactions from the left ranged from it was all Kirk's fault to "kill everyone on the right." The Twitchy capture that's at the heart of this thread goes to three pages on X, each page full of users crying out for more murders. JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok (Chaya Raichik), Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and more.

Early in the day, the FBI released these photos of a Person Of Interest, looking for information from anyone that might recognize this guy. I just saw pictures that were higher resolution but that showed less of the person's facial details.

Photos from FBI.gov via Town Hall.

At the end of Glenn Beck's "nine to noon" (Eastern) radio program he said he had an audio clip taken from the video of Charlie Kirk's last speech. There was audio of the last two questions Charlie took from the crowd. As best I can recall:

2nd to last: "Do you know how many mass shootings have been carried out by transgenders?"

Charlie: "Too many."

Last: "Do you know how many mass shootings there have been?"

Charlie: "After subtracting all the gang shootings?"

That's when the shot was heard and Charlie went down.

Combine that with reports that his Mauser, bolt-action, .30-06 was recovered along with a lot more information from things found where the rifle was found, including "engraved cartridges" that had both "transgenders are wonderful" and "anti-fascist" stereotypical phrases. How out of touch with reality does this moron have to be to not realize saying "you don't agree with what I think government should be doing so I'm going to kill you" is about as fascist as can be?

Brother Borepatch put together a more succinct version of my rambling. I'd say "go read" but this is just about the whole thing.