Santa Fe, NM — Today, political organizer and conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Sharer (R-Farmington) reacted to these new developments with the following statement:
“We have people in our country who think that free speech is somehow an existential threat to our democracy. Today, such people executed a man whose only crime was loving God, loving his country, and loving his family.
Yet our republic cannot function without healthy political debate. Shame on those who can’t—or won’t—engage in a civil conversation and instead resort to violence to silence the voices of those they disagree with.”
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