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Charlie Sheen: We Just Had ‘This Generation’s JFK Moment’

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Actor Charlie Sheen made a chilling comparison during an interview on Tuesday, declaring that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was “this generation’s JFK moment.”

The eponymous host of “Piers Morgan Uncensored” opened the interview by calling the slaying “an extraordinary moment. Really a horrific moment,” before asking Sheen what he thought about someone being executed “for having opinions someone didn’t like.”

Sheen stated that his immediate thoughts were about Kirk’s wife and children.

“I first thought about his fatherless children, his wife, instantly a widow. So I didn’t care about the politics or any of the social aspects, cultural aspects,” he remarked.

“You know, at first I immediately thought of just in the family dynamic and component and the value of what was just ripped from all of them forever.”

The “Two and a Half Men” star had been recording an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” last Wednesday when news of Kirk’s death broke.

Sheen and host Joe Rogan learned mid-show that Kirk had been shot. “Should we bring this up? I guess we have to. So this just happened, we just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot,” Rogan said, stunned, before asking whether the conservative activist had survived.

His producer confirmed Kirk had succumbed to his injuries, leaving Rogan completely stunned.

“It’s a f–ked up time. People are so divided in this country,” Rogan lamented.

Sheen described the crime as “f—ing awful,” adding Kirk had been “murdered for having a different opinion from somebody else, different ideology from somebody else … beliefs that didn’t align.”

Rogan, who had only encountered Kirk once at a gun range, praised him as a thoughtful person.

“He’s not a violent guy, he’s talking to people on college campuses. He wasn’t even particularly rude, tried to be pretty reasonable with people,” the comedian explained.

“He’s a very intelligent guy, whether you agree with him or don’t, and there’s a lot of stuff that I didn’t agree with him on.”

Sheen echoed the sentiment, saying, “Rest in peace. He doesn’t deserve that. Nobody deserves that.”

Reflecting on the surreal podcast taping, Sheen told Morgan, “Joe and I just trying to kind of keep some measure of, just keep our wits and sensibilities about us processing this.”

Ironically, the veteran actor said that he and Rogan had just discussed the assassination of John F. Kennedy earlier in the interview.

“If that moment had to happen, the moment happened and being with Rogan for the aftermath of it was helpful. If that if that makes sense,” he explained.

“I think for this generation, I think that’s their JFK moment,” Sheen noted. “I mean, seriously, if that’s where we that’s where we wound up, it cannot be where we stay.”

The podcast also featured Rogan’s anger at now-fired MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, who suggested the assassination might have been celebratory gunfire gone wrong, even blaming Kirk himself for being targeted.

“What a crazy take, like it might not have been someone assassinating someone for the wrong opinion,” Rogan said, slamming voices in the media who appeared to be “celebrating” Kirk’s death.

He added that MSNBC was pushing a narrative to “try to pin it on a crazy Trump supporter with a gun going wacky.”

“This is a f–ked up time. People are so divided in this country, so divided. And there’s so many people that love it,” Rogan continued.

“They love that we’re divided, and they profit off that division, and they stoke the fires, and they do it for their own profit. And it’s so f–king gross. It’s so gross.”

Rogan called for Americans to take Kirk’s assassination as a “wake-up call,” warning that failure to do so could spark more unrest.

“This is a dark day,” Sheen interjected, with Rogan agreeing. The comedian warned that unless the nation learns to have civil debates, “it’s going to get a lot worse.”

He noted Kirk had amassed a large following and that his supporters would be furious to learn he was killed over ideology.

“That guy had a lot of fans. A lot of people loved that guy,” he pointed out. “And if they find out that he got killed for something they vehemently oppose in the first place, it could send people over the edge.”

Sheen warned the shooting could become a “flashpoint moment.”

“There’s gonna be a lot of people celebrating this. It’s so dangerous to celebrate or in any way encourage this kind of behavior from human beings,” Rogan responded.

“You’re allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.”

While Rogan and Sheen mourned, several Hollywood figures stirred backlash with their own takes.

Actor Michael Keaton addressed Kirk’s death at the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 50th anniversary gala.

“Before we start to get into the meat of this thing, I’m going to take a minute to say that, regardless of how I probably – not probably – have disagreed with many things he said, Charlie Kirk leaves behind two kids and a wife. You gotta remember that,” the Batman star said.

“Because in the end, shooting people will never answer anything, and the irony that he was killed with a gun is unbelievable.”

Actress Amanda Seyfried took a far harsher stance on social media. The “Mean Girls” star reposted a message to her Instagram Story reading, “You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating.”

She later commented on another post, labeling Kirk “hateful.”

Her remarks ignited outrage online. One user wrote, “Cancelled. Worst comments about Charlie Kirk.”

“The only irony is that far left subhumans who scream for gun control keep using guns to hurt innocent law abiding Americans. Hypocrite,” another added about Keaton’s remarks.

Watch Sheen’s full appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” here:

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