Jay Leno expressed his shock and bewilderment about the assassination of Charlie Kirk in a call to a local Los Angeles radio talk show Wednesday evening.
Leno expressed his outrage to Tim Conway Jr. on his KFI AM show about the death of Kirk and opined that it was a political assassination meant to squelch free speech.
'A lot of times, you watch somebody like Charlie Kirk, it might enforce your beliefs more or it might change your mind. But at least it gets you thinking.'
"It's not a random shooting. It's the death of free speech!" said Leno, after saying he had listened to Kirk before the attack. "To think that you are so illiterate and so stupid you can't answer verbally, and you have to shoot somebody with a gun to 'win the argument.'"
He contrasted the current political climate