Joe Biden stated that the mass shootings at a Tremendous Bowl celebration rally in Kansas Metropolis right this moment “cuts deep within the American soul.”
“At this time’s occasions ought to transfer us, shock us, disgrace us into performing. What are we ready for? What else do we have to see? What number of extra households must be torn aside?” he stated in a press release launched by the White Home.
Authorities stated that 22 individuals had been shot, together with one who died from wounds. 9 of these injured had been youngsters. Kansas Metropolis Police Chief Stacey Graves stated officers have “three individuals detained and beneath investigation.”
Kansas Metropolis radio station KKFI stated that one in every of its DJs, Lisa Lopez, was killed within the shootings.
The rally was going down on the metropolis’s Union Station, the place crowds had gathered to rejoice the Chiefs’ third 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 anyplace in Congress.
The president additionally famous that right this moment, the sixth anniversary of the mass taking pictures at a Parkland, FL highschool, “we realized that three law enforcement officials had 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 12 months 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 12 months.”
“The epidemic of gun violence is ripping aside households and communities every single day,” he stated. “Some make the information. A lot of it doesn’t. However all of it’s unacceptable. We’ve to determine who we’re as a rustic. For me, we’re a rustic the place individuals ought to have the proper to go to high school, to go to church, to stroll the road — and to attend a Tremendous Bowl celebration — with out worry of dropping your life to gun violence.”
