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(MSC News)--Flags fly at half-staff across Kansas following the issuance of an Executive Order from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
According to a release from Kelly's office, she is calling for flags to fly in that formation from now until sundown Sunday.
The release says the order is in remembrance of all victims and survivors of political violence, citing both this week's murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk and that of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker emerita Melissa Hortman as examples.
Kelly, in the release, says the United States "should not be a place where freedom of speech is silenced with political violence,” adding that she calls "on all Kansans, and all Americans, to join in a movement to bring political violence to an end," saying "we must stop the use of dangerous rhetoric and return to respectfully debating issues without threats, hate, or violence.”
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