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the entire situation is dripping in macabre irony

the question about gun rights, the "prove me wrong" tent, the "constitutional carry" state the event is held in

Very unlikely the shooter didn't have that in mind.

I also doubt that Kirk hadn't accepted or considered a martyrdom outcome like this.

I very much doubt he ever expected that he would ever the victim of gun violence that he elsewhere accepted as an acceptable price to be paid.