Laura Kelly ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Friday through sundown Sunday for victims of political violence. “Our nation should not be a place where freedom of speech is silenced with political violence,” she said. “I call on all Kansans, and all Americans, to join in a movement to bring political violence to an end. “The killing of Minnesota’s speaker-emeritus Hortman, the wounding of a state senator, and now the assassination of Charlie Kirk. These were not just political tragedies; they were attacks on free expression itself,” Blasi and Sykes said in a press release.