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Comedian Jay Leno called the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk the "death of free speech" during an interview on Wednesday, denouncing the fatal shooting.

"It’s not a random shooting. I mean, it’s the death of free speech, 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,’" Leno said during an appearance on the "Tim Conway Jr. Show."

Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking during a campus event at Utah Valley University.

"When I was in school, lively debate was unbelievable, to have the SDS, the Students for Democratic Society, debate somebody else," Leno continued. "I can remember when James Baldw

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