A Palmetto Bay, Fla. councilman is facing backlash and growing calls for him to step down over a social media post about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In the since-deleted post, Councilman Steve Cody called Kirk's assassination "a fitting sacrifice" with a graphic of the activist’s 2023 remarks that “it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year” for Second Amendment rights.

"Charlie Kirk is a fitting sacrifice to our Lords: Smith & Wesson. Hallowed be their names," Cody wrote.

Mayor Karyn Cunningham released a statement Thursday calling for Cody to step down.

"Violence has no place in our community or in our nation, and words that seek to diminish or make light of such tragedy are equally harmful," she wrote in part. "The people of

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