The Republican lawmaker whose district includes Utah Valley University, where conservative media figure Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, said that Kirk’s assassination won’t intimidate conservatives.
“Violence will not silence us. The United States of America is a place where we stand up for each other in a civil fashion,” Rep. Mike Kennedy, who is a freshman in Congress, told NOTUS shortly after getting the news that Kirk had died. “This is entirely reprehensible. This assassin will face justice.”
When asked what Congress can do to stop political violence, Kennedy said lawmakers should “continue to do the work that it’s doing.”