Michael Keaton: It’s ‘Irony’ Charlie Kirk was ‘Killed with a Gun’

Hollywood star Michael Keaton took a moment to lament the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and ruefully noted that it is an “irony” that Kirk was “killed with a gun.”

The Beetlejuice star appeared at the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 50th anniversary gala on Monday night and he took a moment to remark on Kirk’s very public assassination.

“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,” Keaton said, according to Variety.

“Because in the end, shooting people will never answer anything, and the irony that he was killed with a gun is unbelievable,” he added without explaining why it is “irony.” However, Kirk is known as a supporter of the Second Amendment and gun rights.

Keaton was in attendance at the event to accept the group’s Champion of Investigative Journalism Award.

The Batman star did not elaborate further on his thoughts about Kirk, but he clearly was not celebrating the assassination like other members of the Hollywood elite have.

Keaton is no closet conservative. He has been heard attacking President Donald Trump, Republicans, and Republican voters many times.

In 2021 he was one of many Hollywood elites pushing election denier and fraudster Stacey Abrams. He endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020. And in 2018 called Republicans and gun owners “weak, disgusting, cowards.”

On the other hand, he has also espoused what might seem like more conservative ideas.

In 2022 he blasted the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and insisted that it was the sort of corruption that could lead to the FBI targeting normal, everyday people.

In 2021, he warned celebrities to stop being so political and said that it often does more harm than good for their own causes.

And back in 2015 he was even heard espousing the traditional conservative values of hard work and sticktoitiveness.

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