Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw blood just spraying from his carotid artery. It was obvious that he wasn\u2019t making it,\u201d the electrician, wearing a red Trump campaign cap, said. \u201cIt was terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n
The killing of Kirk on Wednesday, while speaking at Utah Valley University, highlighted the extreme levels of gun violence in the United States.<\/p>\n
But Seitzinger remains adamantly opposed to imposing stricter gun ownership laws and says changing the rules would be useless anyway, given the huge number of firearms already out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have changed anything. When there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way. People get guns, no matter what,\u201d Seitzinger said at a vigil on Thursday night in memory of Kirk, who was 31 and married with two children.<\/p>\n
Authorities announced on Friday they had the suspected shooter in custody but have not said how he obtained the high-power bolt action rifle used in the killing, which was then ditched in a wooded area nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,49204,12,94084,7922,35501,3,94083,94085,21,19,22,20,25,24,3324,91303],"class_list":["post-153248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-control-laws","tag-gun-violence","tag-mass-shootings","tag-news","tag-reed-fansworth","tag-second-amendment","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-utah","tag-utah-valley-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}