This GOP Lawmaker Has A Very Extreme Plan For Those Who “Belittled” Charlie Kirk’s Death On Social Media

A Republican congressman upset by some of the social media posts he’s read in the wake of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of far-right activist Charlie Kirk made a really, really extreme proposal.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) took to X on Thursday and vowed to “use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

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Higgins said that any social media accounts from people who “ran their mouths with their smartass hatred, celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man” must come down.

The Louisiana Republican also demanded that any users who posted those “belittling” posts be “banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”

But Higgins wasn’t finished.

“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” he wrote.

RawStory noted that Kirk might have disagreed with Higgins’ plan, considering he had spoken out against social media bans earlier this year, saying, “You should be allowed to say outrageous things.”

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HuffPost reached out to Higgins’ office for comment, but no one immediately responded.

However, it seems many fans of Kirk’s think destroying the 1st Amendment to get revenge on (checks notes) people who might have posted incendiary-but-Constitutionally-protected remarks is a bad idea:

@carminesabia

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@JimDeanVFL

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@realchasegeiser

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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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