“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death,” Kirk said a week after three children and three adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville in 2023. “That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth (it) 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.”