Eric Utter's scathing September 13, 2025, column lands like a Molotov cocktail: The Left, he charges, kills its foes, free speech warriors, Second Amendment stalwarts, then spins their blood into gun control crusades, a grotesque "two-fer" that weaponises tragedy for tyranny. It's a tactic as old as power itself: Manufacture misery, then milk it to tighten your grip. Utter's lens, focused on the U.S., stretches globally, Australia, UK, France, Germany, where progressives' "tolerance" and "diversity" dogmas excuse chaos while framing dissent as sin. This "heads I win, tails you lose" gambit nails it: The Left thrives on a rigged game, turning every crisis, shootings, cultural rifts, economic woes, into a heads-up for control, leaving conservatives and traditionalists holding the bag.
Utter's opener is brutal: The Left shoots, then shills for gun bans. Exhibit A? The September 10, 2025, assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University by Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old with a manifesto railing against "fascist enablers." Within hours, X lit up with progressive voices, some verified, some not, pivoting from "thoughts and prayers" to "time for gun control." One post, racking 10k likes, mused: "Kirk's death is tragic, but maybe it'll spark real reform." Ironic? Monstrous, per Utter. The shooter's Leftist leanings, per FBI leaks, didn't stop the narrative: Guns, not ideology, killed.
This isn't isolated. Post-2015 Paris attacks (130 dead), French socialists pushed gun restrictions despite jihadists' illegal arsenals. Germany's 2024 Magdeburg Christmas market ramming (six dead)? Migration-fuelled, yet SPD leaders spun it to tighter "hate speech" laws. The playbook: Create or exploit chaos (violence, unrest), then pitch solutions that strip freedoms, gun rights, machetes, speech, borders. Heads, they advance; tails, you're disarmed.
Utter's skewer of "tolerance" and "diversity" as false gods hits the core: These aren't virtues but cudgels. Progressives champion "tolerance" for selective sins, excusing crime spikes in migrant-heavy zones (UK knife crime up 7% in 2024) while condemning dissent as "bigotry." Diversity? Less unity, more division, CRT in 35 U.S. states' curricula by 2023 pits races against each other, echoing Mao's class warfare, per Xi Van Fleet.
This framing flips the script: Conservatives defending free speech or borders aren't "intolerant"; they're resisting a rigged game. Yet progressives control the board. Post-Kirk, NBC framed gun control as "common sense"; X pushback, 50k retweets on "Left's hypocrisy," got buried by algo tweaks. Biden-era YouTube censorship (admitted September 2025) nuked COVID sceptics under "harm" pretexts, proving the Left's narrative lock: Disagree, and you're a threat.