- One person was killed and twenty injured in a shooting in Kansas city, Missouri that happened during the
Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.
According to officers, they attended seven cases with potentially fatal injuries as well as eight
cases whose conditions were incontinently life – hanging. Nine children were among those injured; all are expected to recover.
Three suspects in the shooting have been apprehended, according to police. The shooting, which looked to be the result of a disagreement between several persons, occurred despite the presence of almost 800 police officers. Authorities said Friday that two adolescents had been charged.
Ms. Graves stated that Kansas police officers reacted soon after the bullets were fired, and detectives
on the spot launched an investigation. The fire department also responded, providing
treatment to those hurt.
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly were among those who observed the chaos firsthand. Kelly’s security detail heard the gunshot after she got into her car to leave, according to a spokesman.
Local Democrat state representative Emily Weber claimed on Friday that she rushed into a restroom at the city’s historic Union Station when the gunfire started. Missouri more than ever needs common sense gun safety measures, as Weber stated in a statement, “especially after experiencing this day of horror as it happened in my own district”.
What was meant to be a day of victory was tragically altered by Missouri’s inadequate gun regulations.
It’s uncertain what the Republican-led Missouri Legislature will do in the wake of the tragedy.
In a statement released on Friday, House Majority Leader Jon Patterson, a suburban Kansas City resident, stated that lawmakers have to “of course look at public policies that
allowed the shooting to happen; that includes guns.”
However, Patterson added, “we also need to consider the policies that allowed two
teenagers to bring firearms to a parade, ruin their lives, and injure and kill others in broad
daylight.” “If we did that, I believe we would realize that there are many more issues at hand
than just gun laws.”
Why gun regulations are needed?
Because of a number of laws enacted over the past few decades by the Republican-led Legislature, Kansas has some of the most liberal gun laws among states.
Handgun purchases required a permit from the local sheriff and a background check, and concealed weapons were illegal prior to the GOP seizing complete control of the Legislature in the 2002 elections. During their first ten years in office, Republican lawmakers removed these restrictions, which led to an increase in sales at gun stores.
Although carrying a handgun is generally forbidden for minors under federal law, Missouri does not currently have any age restrictions on gun ownership or use.
2014 saw voters strengthen gun rights by passing a constitutional amendment that declared the right to bear arms “unalienable” and subjected any limitations “to strict scrutiny.”
The majority of adults are now permitted to carry concealed firearms without a permit after the Republican supermajority in Missouri’s legislature overrode Democratic Governor Jay
Nixon’s veto two years later. Additionally, the law expanded the permissible use of firearms for self-defense by establishing the “stand-your-ground” right.
The Missouri House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education advanced HB 1440 in January, a bill that would enable local officials to expand the number of individuals authorized to carry firearms within schools.
Legislation known as SB 1273, if approved by the Missouri Senate, would permit holders of current concealed carry permits to carry weapons within churches and on public transit.
Additionally, it would reduce the age requirement from 19 to 18 in Missouri for applying for a concealed carry permit.
Another offer is the “Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” which would ban civil or judicial orders from confiscating firearms from “law abiding citizens.”
Red flag gun laws are gun safety measures at the city and state levels that allow authorities to disarm someone who is deemed a threat to themselves or others. They frequently emerge following mass shootings.
More than a dozen proposed bills in Missouri’s current legislative session would make firearms more accessible, ubiquitous, and difficult to regulate.
However, the federal system is much too weak in general, with no requirement for
background checks on all gun transactions and the gun industry receiving special legal protection. State authorities should safeguard their inhabitants by closing the various
loopholes in federal law. They should also take action where state power is greatest, such as mandating a mechanism for domestic abusers to turn in firearms when they are barred from
having them.
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