No. It’s Important

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I try to keep this blog non-religious. And I will again tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Save for emergencies. This feels like an emergency.

If you’re a believer whose belief allows it, say it with. Say it with me NOW.

St. Michael the Archangel, 
defend us in battle. 
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. 
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, 
and do thou, 
O Prince of the heavenly hosts, 
by the power of God, 
thrust into hell Satan, 
and all the evil spirits, 
who prowl about the world 
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. .

O glorious prince St. Michael, 
chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, 
guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, 
servant in the house of the Divine King
and our admirable conductor, 
you who shine with excellence
and superhuman virtue deliver us from all evil,
who turn to you with confidence
and enable us by your gracious protection
to serve God more and more faithfully every day.

110 thoughts on “No. It’s Important”

      1. Civilization is so fragile. So fragile.

        And we’re dealing with people who claim to want to save all the species in an ecosystem because “you can’t go popping rivets off a plane wing while it’s flying”, yet can’t seem to extend that to the rules a society needs to keep people in it from killing each other.

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    3. Didn’t see this post til now, but I am definitely praying. For the Kirk family, and for those currently celebrating to have their hearts softened and the path shown to them to turn them away from evil–those who can, at any rate, who are blinded by their hate. For those who know what they are doing, I pray that our Father will place roadblocks in their path to prevent them from gaining more power. (And I have faith that He will.)

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  2. Not a Catholic, but I definitely feel the need to pray harder for peace.

    I get the feeling that the only thing holding some people on the Right from going kinetic is the somewhat scatter shot nature of the violence we’ve been seeing over the last couple of weeks. There isn’t an overarching target… yet. But someone or someone’s might be putting some thought into coming up with one, particularly if things don’t cool down in a hurry.

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    2. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.

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    1. Is is sinful and evil to smite the forces of evil?

      No, no it isn’t.

      Application of any force should be very Jacksonian. Fast, hard, so hard the receivers’ ancestors feel it, and then walk away. Repeat as necessary. If they can’t learn they’ll die and that will take care of the problem.

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        1. Quite correct.

          And all it will take for the avalanche to start, is a relative handful of folks -refraining- from saying to any hotheads they encounter:

          “Don’t. Not now. Not yet. No.”

          -That- is all it takes. For a handful of the peacemakers to…. shrug.

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  12. This happened not 6 miles from where I work and I’m close enough to various main routes that I likely heard the sirens of local emergency response heading that way.

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    2. I went to that school for three years (many years ago by now) and sat on the grass doing my homework right down there where Charlie Kirk was murdered. Of all the places for something like this to happen, this isn’t one I wouldn’t have expected.

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      1. Yeah, I remember when it was UVSC. The idea that anything significant would happen there, particularly a tragedy…

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        1. Heck, I’m old enough to have been in school there when it was still UVCC. (And people not very much older than I still called it “the tech.”) :) And then I came back a few years later when it was UVSC. It never did seem like a place where any event of national significance could possibly happen, let alone one like this (and I liked it that way).

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          1. I’m of an age with you then. You never think that you will be anywhere and later have to say “It happened THERE”.

            My last “claim to fame” was being from the town next door from where “Baby Jessica fell down the well”. I moved to NYS after 9/11 and met people very directly affected by the fall of the towers. I know where I was when the Challenger exploded and what I was doing when I first heard about the Columbia. But there was still some distance with all those. Even the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler was a bit distanced.

            People I know were at UVU attending the event or at classes. My kids’ social media and friend groups all discussing it because they were directly impacted. Two of my friends are teachers at schools close enough they were put on lockdown.

            This is personal in a weird way.

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          2. Since many here likely aren’t familiar with UVU, it started out as Utah Valley Community College. But it just happens to be close to BYU. So students who couldn’t get into BYU for whatever reason, but wanted to be near the campus, would apply at UVCC. This led to more popularity than a community college typically has, and name changes to Utah Valley State College, and finally Utah Valley University.

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            1. UVU actually started out in the Dark Ages as Utah Technical College, a two-year institution for Associates Degrees.

              I taught there after it had moved to the “new” campus but still had the old name. At the time, there was only one building, now the Automotive center (Tech aka blue-collar trades was its main focus). I was part of the early set of instructors for computer literacy and basic (or BASIC) programming skills, in the early 1980s.

              Many BYU-to-be students started there to get their general requirements out of the way; cheaper tuition, although not necessarily easier coursework.

              It was a nice place.

              Now it covers all of the available area that used to be a nice, middle-class, young-family neighborhood, including razing my kids’ first elementary school.

              But, yeah, a political assassination in Utah???

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              1. “BYU-to-be students started there to get their general requirements out of the way; cheaper tuition, although not necessarily easier coursework.“

                –

                LCC, *both of them, are currently the same. Only problem is whether the transferring of course name qualifies at the target university by the time you finish (credits transfer, but might not be accepted in place of a requirement). Seriously a PIA. Called M O N E Y. OTOH the resulting retake of material is generally easier.

                Difference between community college work level and university work level is the class sizes (generally) plus the instructors (VS professors and TA’s) are there to teach not research and publish.

                (*) Lower Columbia College, Longview, and Lane Community College, Eugene.

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      1. The good news is that some of the less extreme lefties are less foolish. Instawife has apparently been watching NBC, and reported that they’re taking a much more even-handed approach. She told Glen Reynolds that about 3/4 of the guests on the channel talking about the assassination were conservative, and everyone she saw was concerned about the potential fallout from it.

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      2. While I don’t buy MSNBC’s apology for a hot minute (any more than any of the other prominent dems–particularly those who were JUST calling for violence)…they did at least fire the guy. Even they realized he’d gone a bridge too far.

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    2. They already are. Pritzker is blaming Jan 6 and Trump. Of course, he thinks he’s got a shot at being the 2028 nominee.

      I will pray for these nut jobs (have already prayed for Kirk and his family). Jesus said to pray for our enemies, so I will. Probably, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

      Not even (or especially) the ones who think they can control all this. The ones who think they know what they’re doing are wrong.

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  16. It’s so awful. I prayed for Charlie and his family as well. The normalization of political violence will put our country though hell.

    Evenstar, checking in from a borrowed laptop.

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    1. Every one of those celebrating this murder – and others – is not listening even to themselves.

      They are providing the rationale for the deaths of every Leftist politician, media figure, and “activist.”

      Purely in rational self defense of ourselves and our loved ones.

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      1. Yeah, I really don’t want to live through that in this country, but seeing some of these disgusting celebratory comments, the thought that keeps coming to me is “It’s like you’re begging for that half a helicopter ride.”

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  18. This all is horrifying – if it’s become the proggie/leftist custom to assassinate moderate and conservative personalities who have a following with the public – then we have come to a very dark place.

    I am reminded of reading about an event which kicked off the Spanish Civil war – when Jose Calvo Sotelo was killed by leftists. Long involved story and perhaps not entirely analogous – but he was more or less a moderate, and that’s when other moderates and conservatives realized that assassination was in the cards that the leftists were playing … the war was on.

    My daughter and I both have the feeling that things are beginning to spin wildly out of control.

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      1. I’ll add to that the general feeling I have of big box stores currently pulling hard toward that phenomenon of “roll left and die”. The more the general public swings back a bit toward center, the harder management is leaning in to all the progressive buzzwords and selling credit cards instead of, you know, goods and services. Layers and layers of Not Good.

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    2. I have to go to Westside Oregon in a couple of weeks for my retina exam. The Subaru Forester is stealthy; no bumper stickers (lots of them in Flyover County; they’re more a practical snow-worthy vehicle than a virtue signal here) so it can pass as an approved Progmobile.

      Not sure which freedom pill dispenser I’m going to take. Starting to consider Colonel Cooper’s advice and use the ‘4’ instead of the Europellet. (Embracing the power of “and”, but CCW with the smaller one is easier, unless the weather gets cold.)

      Mercifully, I won’t need to go to the People’s Republic of Ashland, but Metro Medford is getting spooky already. Sigh.

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      2. I remember a time that I had to go to the Tulsa area after the Ferguson riots and around the time of a 2016 shooting in Tulsa. I was trying to decide what hole punchers to take with me. I started with a pistol, added another one, then thought about crowds and tossed in a Kel-Tec KSG, thought about range and grabbed a Sub-2000 with the same mags as my pistols and, as a what the heck, tossed in an AR-15 to boot. Good thing I was driving, but carrying them to and from the hotel room was a chore. :)

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      3. Carry the one you -will- carry.

        Carry the one with which you -will- hit.

        Sure, I am a 4+ snob. But I still haven’t figured out how to put a 1911 in the pocket of a pair of walk-around-shorts. (Not without wardrobe malfunction). There is a place for pocket pistols.

        But carry the biggest gun you will in fact carry about, and with which you can hit. And at least one reload, because after the fight you have to get home.

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    3. Depends. If there’s another assassination attempt on a well-known conservative in the near future, that might start reciprocal lethal action from some folks on the right. The Tit For Tat War might be the outcome.

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  19. Amen to the prayer. I have been praying all afternoon. As I told A friend, not only are we very close to a shooting war, but the inmates are running the asylum. I don’t think as shooting war is going to go the way they think it will. I don’t want to see one at ALL. May God, in His mercy, keep us free from it.

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    2. Too many people believe in the “short, victorious war”. But those wars are almost never short, and quite frequently also not victorious.

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  23. And we see a glimmer of the true danger of lies. Everyone who knowingly lied, everyone who repeated a lie but should have seen through it, everyone who wanted the lie to be true, who put some pet cause before the truth, bears a part of the blame. And of the shame.

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  24. Praying in there heard with the rest of you.

    i hope this doesn’t sound trite to anyone, but it’s one of my mantras that I have adopted since the arson fire that beset us 13 months ago, and think it may be appropriate: “Not all things are good, but all things can work together for good.”

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          1. Here’s the comment, with only one link:

            I was thinking that this morning. He is a perfect martyr, slaughtered in the midst of professing his beliefs.

            I would not be surprised if miracles started appearing. I am not alone in thinking that he should be canonized: https://catholiconline.news/opinion/was-charlie-kirk-a-martyr-and-should-he-be-canonized/ And I’m a New England Yankee who’s as rational as they come.

            But don’t go to war in his name. Follow the harder, more effective road–the behavior he preached.

            Quote: “As someone who believed politics was downstream from culture, Kirk said a political movement was detrimental if it didn’t create and sustain a community based on the values that enable “human flourishing for all people.”

            The antithesis to this, Kirk insisted, were calls for ideological radicalism and violent uprisings, which he feared were becoming more common themes among his target demographic. 

            “My job every single day is actively trying to stop a revolution,” Kirk told me. “This is where you have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children.”

            “That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry.””

            In a representative democracy, this is how you win. This is why the left killed him. Hold fast to the truth.

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            1. No need for an apology. I tried to post the reply this morning.

              It’s been a tough week for everyone, but you have more on your plate than most.

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    2. I was thinking that this morning. He is a perfect martyr, slaughtered in the midst of professing his beliefs.

      I would not be surprised if miracles started appearing. I am not alone in thinking that he should be canonized: https://catholiconline.news/opinion/was-charlie-kirk-a-martyr-and-should-he-be-canonized/ And I’m a New England Yankee who’s as rational as they come.

      But don’t go to war in his name. Follow the harder, more effective road–the behavior he preached.

      Quote: “As someone who believed politics was downstream from culture, Kirk said a political movement was detrimental if it didn’t create and sustain a community based on the values that enable “human flourishing for all people.”

      The antithesis to this, Kirk insisted, were calls for ideological radicalism and violent uprisings, which he feared were becoming more common themes among his target demographic. 

      “My job every single day is actively trying to stop a revolution,” Kirk told me. “This is where you have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children.”

      “That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry.””

      https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-was-assassinated-what-was-kirks-legacy-of-youth-conservative-activism/

      In a representative democracy, this is how you win. This is why the left killed him. Hold fast to the truth.

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    1. What the actual…?

      *Facepalms*

      …I write evil vampires and warlords as the bad guys. It’s not a good look when you’re pulling from the Thulsa Doom playbook, people.

      (AKA remember your Evil Overlord List says turning into a snake never helps.)

      On a more sober note – what. What are they thinking. Are they thinking?

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      1. Folks in that practice are reminded of the Rule Of Three.

        Me, personally, I say get to Jesus, ASAP. But if you insist in playing in that particular puddle, do remember the warnings of you know, your own fellow practitioners.

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  27. Said, and truly. More than once.

    Not too very far from here is a room I know well, with a picture much like the headline pic of this OP hanging prominently. Kept that image in mind, it’s a useful thing. Might be for others, too.

    “The light shines in the dark; and the dark has not overcome it.”

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  28. Remember, we don’t yet know anything about the shooter, other than reports that he was 200 yards away and still achieved his goal with a single shot to the head, which implies some level of training. We’re assuming the shooter is a rabid lefty, but we don’t know that. The shooter might be so bugnuts crazy that he (probably a he) doesn’t have any coherent political identity. He might (my subconscious says 15% chance) be an operative from a hostile country/group that wants to play “divide and conquer” with us, smuggled in during the last four years of wide-open borders. He might even (1% chance) be a glowie trying to start the boog. We don’t know, and it feels to me like it will be a while before we do know.

    Meanwhile … “Remain calm.” Alert, but calm. Keep a weather eye out. Keep your clothes and tools where you can find them in the dark. And—if you find meaning in it—pray. Pray for a family that just lost its father, pray for a movement that just lost its leader, pray for a nation that just lost one of its brightest sparks. And pray for the USA, that we may survive our 250th year and soar onward and upward to new freedom and new glory.

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    1. other than reports that he was 200 yards away and still achieved his goal with a single shot to the head, which implies some level of training

      Barely. Mostly it just means it wasn’t the very first time they picked up a rifle, and they probably didn’t have severe parkinson’s.

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      1. “The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

        –

        Source, under “current breaking news”: https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/11/cartridges-from-charlie-kirk-shooting-found-with-transgender-antifascist-messaging-n4943571 Did not list the actual engravings.

        No second source. Fox News and other sources have stated that the rifle and rounds had engravings. But made it clear that the actual engravings themselves had not been released.

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        1. “Markings” like with a sharpie? Fairly easy and wipe/redo until right.

          Or “engravings” which most folks would scratch in with a nail, badly. And on round things? Quite a challenge to do more than “crude”.

          Fairly easy to get prints off brass and firearms, with a bit of luck.

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          1. They are also thinking they can get DNA off of the rifle where the shooter’s cheek / forearms contacted the rifle.

            One thing that has the Left hesitating is that this wasn’t an “assault weapon”, but a bolt-action deer rifle.

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    3. Also, we should probably assume that any posts/comments on any platform from accounts we don’t know calling for violence and division glow so hard they can be seen from space, either in Russkie/ChiCom Red or Swamp Brown.

      This is a perfect opportunityfor them, let’s make sure we say privet and dasvedanya as needed.

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    4. Anyone with the minimum US Army “Marksman” qualification can make that shot.

      The “get in, shoot, get out” is a bit more, but not more than is covered in US Army basic for any MOS. (sneak, camoflage, etc)

      Now, is Joe Yutz a bit more than the average BlacBlocBonehead? yes.

      He hit the neck. The well trained shooter is either going center of mass, approximately the sternum, or center of head, a half playing card around the eyes.

      The weapon was allegedly a Mauser bolt-action .30-06, with a scope. Those kick a bit. -Way- more than an AR in 5.56.

      So I suspect Joe Yutz flinched/jerked/heeled, fairly badly. (anticipated recoil and pushed/pulled off intended aim.)

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  33. On the evening of 9/11/2001 I looked up the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (do so, all the verses) and wrote them on a graphic with the Stars and Stripes as background. At the bottom I wrote “9/11/2001 — Never Forgive”. (Yes, “forgive” not “forget”, I meant it that way.)

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  34. John 14:27 – “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

    Lo these many, many years ago my mother made my teenaged self solemnly promise her never to hit anyone in anger. After I promised, she looked me right in the eye and told me that malice aforethought was, however, perfectly acceptable.

    So let us mourn with those that mourn and comfort those in need of comfort, and then calmly and rationally plan our response to this declaration of war against political dissent. The timing of this makes it clear that they hated him, not just because of his message, but also because of how effective he was at spreading that message. They cannot allow that. Charlie’s voice of reason and recitation of facts and questioning of dogma has been silenced, so we must raise our own voices, in whatever way we can, to take up the refrain and press forward the work of convincing the rising generation away from socialism, in all its destructive forms.

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      1. I suspect you are understating things, if anything. They lit a spark and I don’t think they’ll like the conflagration that results.

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  35. I’ve been praying for the family. I woke at 0300 this AM and recited several iterations of the St. Michael invocation. And yes, I’ve got the twitch that something’s brewing. And I keep reminding myself that Aslan is on the march. The White Witch is not defeated, but winter is losing its grip.

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  36. @ TXRed > “The White Witch is not defeated, but winter is losing its grip.”

    But remember that not all the Narnians survived the battle.

    Look back at Sarah’s advice in “Telling the Truth” and be one of the survivors.

    “And speaking of that, reading that article about The Girl On The Train, I realized she went in and sat in front of the homeless guy in the hoodie, and put her earbuds on and….Guys!”

    And keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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