AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The executive director of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) chapter at the University of Texas at Austin said he does have concerns following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college campus in Utah.

"We're definitely going to be requesting more security measures at our events," Ethan Xu, the UT chapter director said. Xu, a junior at UT Austin studying economics, said he was shocked to learn about the shooting of Kirk on Wednesday afternoon. Kirk had set up a tent to give college students a chance to debate with him on a variety of political issues, something he has done on countless college campuses in the past.

"It's just terrifying that could happen in the United States of America," Xu said.

His concerns stem from the public assassi

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