Bipartisan outrage echoed from Long Island's top political and elected officials over the slaying Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA.

A main theme was urgent calls for tamping down the nation's hostile political discourse.

"Political violence has no place in America," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Brooklyn Democrat, said in a statement on the social media site X, formally known as Twitter.

Like Schumer, New York's other Democratic senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, described the shooting of the prominent supporter of President Donald Trump as "horrifying news."

Kirk, who has been credited by some with helping to inspire a new generation of conservatives, was killed during an appearance at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, the f

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