Joe Biden mentioned that the mass shootings at a Tremendous Bowl celebration rally in Kansas Metropolis immediately “cuts deep within the American soul.”
“Right this moment’s occasions ought to transfer us, shock us, disgrace us into appearing. What are we ready for? What else do we have to see? What number of extra households should be torn aside?” he mentioned in an announcement launched by the White Home.
Authorities mentioned that 22 individuals have been shot, together with one who died from wounds. 9 of these injured have been youngsters. Kansas Metropolis Police Chief Stacey Graves mentioned officers have “three individuals detained and beneath investigation.”
Kansas Metropolis radio station KKFI mentioned that considered one of its DJs, Lisa Lopez, was killed within the shootings.
The rally was happening on the metropolis’s Union Station, the place crowds had gathered to have a good time the Chiefs’ second Tremendous Bowl win in a row.
Biden known as for a ban on assault weapons and limits on high-capacity magazines, amongst different measures. However these measures have been unable to advance wherever in Congress.
The president additionally famous that immediately, the sixth anniversary of the mass taking pictures at a Parkland, FL highschool, “we realized that three cops have been shot within the line of obligation in Washington, DC and one other faculty taking pictures befell at Benjamin Mays Excessive Faculty in Atlanta. Yesterday marked one yr for the reason that taking pictures at Michigan State College. We’ve now had extra mass shootings in 2024 than there have been days within the yr.”
“The epidemic of gun violence is ripping aside households and communities day-after-day,” he mentioned. “Some make the information. A lot of it doesn’t. However all of it’s unacceptable. We have now to resolve who we’re as a rustic. For me, we’re a rustic the place individuals ought to have the suitable to go to high school, to go to church, to stroll the road — and to attend a Tremendous Bowl celebration — with out concern of shedding your life to gun violence.”
