TORRINGTON — Referencing the Charlie Kirk assassination, Wyoming GOP leaders passed a resolution Saturday asking state authorities to investigate and potentially discipline public employees who celebrate such killings.

It’s a reference to the numerous online figures — some of them schoolteachers — celebrating conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination after he was shot in the throat Sept. 10.

Detractors of the move said it violates the party’s own plank committing to uphold the freedom of speech.

Proponents of the resolution, conversely, said freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.

The party on Saturday adopted three other resolutions as well, all asking lawmakers or state agencies to act. Those are :

• A resolution asking the Wyoming Legislature to draft

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