The gory video spread as quickly as the news itself.

As people grappled with Wednesday's fatal shooting of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk — with the graphic video of the incident available almost instantly online — the question many of us asked each other wasn't necessarily, "Did you hear?" but, "Did you watch it?"

Tens of millions of people have watched the moment Kirk was shot in the neck — whether inadvertently or not — and among them are children and teens with easy access to social media. But it's also far from the first graphic video showing deadly violence easily accessible online .

The widely-circulated video of a Ukrainian woman stabbed to death last month on a train in North Carolina is just another recent example.

The American Academy of Pediatric

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