Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps
A day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a FIRE survey of 68,000 college students at 257 universities, was released and it revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable. 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 ...