President Joe Biden released a statement following the deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs parade on Wednesday. Three people were arrested following the deaths of two people, with more than 20 people injured on Wednesday afternoon.
The Kansas City Chiefs parade was to celebrate a Super Bowl victory
The Chiefs were celebrating their second Super Bowl win in a row when the shooting started. People began discussing the merits of gun control not long after the first reports of the shooting hit social media.
President Joe Biden releases statement on the shooting
Biden gave his thoughts on gun control in his statement. Per his statement released on the White House’s website, Biden wants to ban assault weapons and have stricter background checks:
“The Super Bowl is the most unifying event in America. Nothing brings more of us together. And the celebration of a Super Bowl win is a moment that brings a joy that can’t be matched to the winning team and their supporters. For this joy to be turned to tragedy today in Kansas City cuts deep in the American soul.
Today’s events should move us, shock us, shame us into acting. What are we waiting for? What else do we need to see? How many more families need to be torn apart?
It is time to act. That’s where I stand. And I ask the country to stand with me. To make your voice heard in Congress so we finally act to ban assault weapons, to limit high-capacity magazines, strengthen background checks, keep guns out of the hands of those who have no business owning them or handling them.
We know what we have to do, we just need the courage to do it.”
Joe Biden called the shooting “unacceptable”
Biden called the gun violence an “epidemic” and said all of it is “unacceptable” in the US:
“Today, on a day that marks six years since the Parkland shooting, we learned that three police officers were shot in the line of duty in Washington, DC and another school shooting took place at Benjamin Mays High School in Atlanta. Yesterday marked one year since the shooting at Michigan State University. We’ve now had more mass shootings in 2024 than there have been days in the year.
The epidemic of gun violence is ripping apart families and communities every day. Some make the news. Much of it doesn’t. But all of it is unacceptable. We have to decide who we are as a country. For me, we’re a country where people should have the right to go to school, to go to church, to walk the street — and to attend a Super Bowl celebration — without fear of losing your life to gun violence.
Jill and I pray for those killed and injured today in Kansas City, and for our country to find the resolve to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence tearing us at the seams.”
Biden wasn’t the only politician to call for more strict gun control following the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs parade. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called for action on Wednesday evening.
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