Students at Utah school where Kirk was killed vow to continue his debates

Scott Spery wrote his name on the recording paper.

The 22 -year -old at the University of Utah Valley has seen Charlie Kerk videos for years and is credited with the conservative fire while he was an incentive for his political involvement.

Now, Thursday afternoon, moments before his political champion is about to speak on the campus, Spiri believed that it was time to push him forward by joining the class of his school from Turning Point Usa – Kirk participated in its founding in 2012 to call for the province on the campus of universities.

Moments after his front seat was filled to see Kirk speaking, Spery saw a shock while a sniper bullet had come out and the blood began to flow from the Kirk neck. He said he could still not shake the pictures, but he believed that the loss will only strengthen the movement that Kirk inspired to join.

“When you try to silence a voice like this, they do not go far – you just amplify it,” said Scott Spery in the second year. “There will now be a million Charlie Kirx, and I feel that this is the thing we have to do.”

Since the immediate shock to calm the attack, some at the University of Utah Valley said that he was replaced with a deep sense of his intention to continue what Kirk started.

Students who have many political ideologies – including those who strongly oppose Kirk’s beliefs – said to the BBC that they felt a personal feeling of responsibility to ensure that health discussions continued about universities.

With branches in more than 850 colleges, it was credited Help Donald Trump win the White House.

Kirk, who had millions of followers online, often tour universities in all parts of the country to discuss issues such as sex, race, combat weapons and immigration. His views – and his confrontation style – often caused criticism from the left and attracted the demonstrators to its events on the campus.

In an event speaking at San Francisco State University last spring, One of the students described it as “anger” Others accused him of using real students of being a “tasting of click”-often spreading his hot arguments with liberals on the Internet, as the stock exchanges will become viral.

The killing of Utah Valley at the Center for Political Gap of America. Shortly after Kirk’s shooting, some of those who disagreed with him moved to social media to blame Kirk, who publicly supported arms ownership. On the right, critics and politicians said that the conservatives were being attacked by the “radical left”.

The lights made some students feel the need to enter the ideological battle.

“This is the first political thing we have ever done. We are not politicians like this,” said McKinnley Chenkel’s student.

He added: “This happens on our university campus and then see people who support shooting – it is just a kind of radicalism.” Nothing is planning to continue political participation. “Everything has changed.”

The Utah Valley is located in a valley surrounded by the high mountains, and it is the largest university in the state. He sits on a hill, overlooking a fragile blue lake and a 218 -foot Granite Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ for the last days. The country, which is also a conservative stronghold, has the largest concentration of the Mormon in the United States and religion plays a leading role in this society.

Many have expressed confusion about the reason why Kirk targeted here. Ben Forster, a second -year student, pointed out how Kirk often stopped in areas with liberal tendencies where he could have been a more goal.

“This is the place where his martyrdom was established,” he said. “I mean, this is what the testimony is: He was killed in a discussion.”

Although Kirk’s positions were not agreed, Forster attended an event on Wednesday in Utah to watch the scene and hear different views – which he hopes will not stop in his school and others after the attack.

“I don’t care what his opinions were,” he said. “He was exercising his right in a public forum to speak and discuss – this is a good thing.”

Signs of what happened here everywhere you look near the campus.

The enforcement of the law that prevents the entrances, the temporary memorial with candles and flowers, signs in the windows of the apartment, and on the roads that Kirk announces a hero after he was shot in front of thousands during one of his discussions on the campus.

Some BBC students told that they were inclined to each other in the wake of this – while discussing some of what was happening after that. It is clear that part of this future will include the political awakening of some on the campus.

Many students designed challenging stickers, and hung them in their apartment windows with reading messages, “freedom” and “you cannot kill the truth.” The Merch offer, like the campaign near the campus, sells Trump’s hats and signs. Throughout the day and throughout the night, people lead to the entrance to the Traffic Department to the campus, and they export their pods – either support or opposition to Kirk.

JEB Jacobi, a student in the second year, participated in the Turning Point USA branch for years, and was volunteering at the first – first station in the “American Return Tour” that was planned from 15 sites in universities.

Participated after he became a fan of Kirk’s brand’s brand discussions.

“I liked it to make people really think,” he said. “Regardless of your policy, he will participate in many young people and fascinating. He has provided a way for people to participate.”

“Something like that – will only help what Charlie was doing,” Jacobi added, saying that he believed that the number of people participating in the Turning Point USA branch will be the balloon.

One of those new additions: Spery.

“We will lead the road,” he said. “We are debtors to Charlie.”