Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck.
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“I saw blood just spraying from his carotid artery. It was obvious that he wasn’t making it,” the electrician, wearing a red Trump campaign cap, said. “It was terrifying.”
The killing of Kirk on Wednesday, while speaking at Utah Valley University, highlighted the extreme levels of gun violence in the United States.
But Seitzinger remains adamantly opposed to imposing stricter gun ownership laws and says changing the rules would be useless anyway, given the huge number of firearms already out there.
“It wouldn’t have changed anything. When there’s a will, there’s a way. People get guns, no matter what,” Seitzinger said at a vigil on Thursday night in memory of Kirk, who was 31 and married with two children.
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Authorities announced on Friday they had the suspected shooter in custody but have not said how he obtained the high-power bolt action rifle used in the killing, which was then ditched in a wooded area nearby.