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2% or 1,360 students believed that violence to stop speech they opposed was “always acceptable”. 13% found it “sometimes acceptable” so that over 10,000 students find violence against campus speakers acceptable some of the time. 

When combined with the 19% who say violence is rarely, but sometimes, acceptable, that’s over 23,000 college students who were willing to answer that using violence against speakers they disliked was a valid option. 

Projecting and generalizing this large sample size to the much larger number of 18 million of college students across the country would translate into support for violently shutting down campus speakers by between 2.7 million and 6.1 million college students. Another 54% or more than half, support blocking students from attending campus speeches they oppose, and 71% back shouting down speakers. 

A majority of college students not only oppose free speech, but support intervening to stop it. What kind of views do they support shutting down by any means necessary? 74% believe speakers who view transgenderism as a mental illness should 60% believe in blocking abortion opponents. 

76% believe in banning anyone who says BLM is a hate group. Charlie Kirk believed all of these things and was willing to come to campus and say it, challenging students to come and debate him, until the debate was ended finally and fatally. He’s dead because 1 in 3 students support using violence to silence opposing speakers. 

His killing though was not some aberration. It was not, no matter how much the media will try to portray it, the equivalent of John Hinckley shooting Reagan. 

One killing anywhere can be an aberration but generations of violence incubated by professors and deans on campus, some of whom openly admire terrorists and urge students to imitate them, is not random chance. It’s a culture of terrorism that is now approaching its murderous apex.