The shooting death of hard-right activist Charlie Kirk has spurred a wide array of reactions on social media, and Tennesseans are being disciplined or fired for their posts online.

Kirk was a cofounder of Turning Point USA, which organizes young people, especially college students, around political conservatism. He was 31 when he was shot and killed this week at a Utah university while debating students.

He was a divisive figure for spreading racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ views. A month after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Kirk said during an event, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

Middle Tennessee State University fired assistant dean Laura

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