At events around Kansas City, Kansas, public officials are taking the time to remember the victims of a shooting at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue on Saturday where 11 persons were killed.
Today, at a meeting at the Environmental Protection Agency lab at 300 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran said he spent the morning with the Jewish community at a meeting in Kansas City, and he was offering his help and assistance to try to make certain these senseless acts of violence don’t occur again.
Andrew Wheeler, acting EPA administrator, said today that violent acts like those in Pittsburgh must be “condemned and confronted wherever it appears. As President Trump said, now is the time for us to unite and uniformly denounce this act and any other acts.”
At a Unified Government Committee meeting Monday night, Commissioner Gayle Townsend asked for a period of silence to commemorate the 11 victims. As so many people across the country supported Wyandotte County, which lost two deputies, and Kansas City, Kansas, which lost two police officers, Commissioner Townsend asked for a period of silence in recognition of the Pittsburgh victims, their families and community.
“It’s a terrible reminder that whatever differences we have should be settled by ballots and not by bullets,” Commissioner Townsend said.