Charlie Kirk murder suspect carved internet memes and jokes into bullets

What was said

"They showed the bullets, and this is the part where the camera really kind of rushed past. I think the casings were not engraved with a manifesto. They were engraved with jokes, a furry forum meme, an old Italian protest song that, you know, has curdled into an internet gag, a throwaway insult. If you read this, you're gay."

Evidence presented at the preliminary hearing in Provo, Utah revealed that the accused killer of Charlie Kirk engraved joke messages and internet memes onto the bullet casings used in the murder. The suspect allegedly texted his partner afterward that the messages were "mostly a big meme" and worried more about explaining the missing rifle to his father than about the man he killed. The speaker argues this represents "a human soul dissolved in irony" where a young person could not distinguish between memes and murder.