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“Eight children were among 22 people hit by gunfire in a shooting at the end of [last] Wednesday’s parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win, authorities said… One of those victims — a mother of two identified by her radio station as a DJ — was killed.” AP News
“Two men charged with murder in last week’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument… Missouri prosecutors said at a news conference that Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, Missouri, and Dominic Miller, of Kansas City, Missouri, have been charged with second-degree murder.” AP News
The right argues that additional gun control laws would not have prevented the shooting.
“According to court documents, the man who began firing was Lyndell Mays, who just completed two years’ probation for disturbing the peace after pulling a gun outside a community center. The other man, Dominic Miller, pulled his gun after Mays had pulled his and began firing after Mays fired first. And to top it all off, the firearm recovered from the scene near Mays was stolen…
“What grand gun control proposal would have done anything here? The guns used were handguns, so an ‘assault weapons’ ban is out. What ‘expanded’ or ‘universal’ background check applies to stolen handguns? Maybe, maybe, you could find something that would have prevented Miller, who is 18, from possessing a gun, but it was Mays, with his stolen firearm, who began shooting first.”
Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner
“Once again, the [mainstream] media is exhibiting a chronic lack of imagination in its coverage of gun-related crime, which is invariably marked out by a fanatical obsession with gun-control and a total lack of interest in anything else… I have read a hundred pieces about firearms — albeit not one featuring a single constructive suggestion — and read nothing whatsoever about parenting, juvenile delinquency, criminal-justice reform, or anything else.”
Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review
“The deadly attacks at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade weren’t ‘stupid,’ to quote alleged shooter Lyndell Mays’ assessment of his own actions: They were evil. To recap: Two young sociopaths, Mays and Dominic Miller, got into a stupid, middle school-level argument during the course of the massive parade, with Mays accused of (gasp) looking at Miller’s friends…
“Part of the problem, of course, is the erasure of traditional social bonds in many cases by decades of terrible progressive policy aimed at undermining the family… Another part is the easy availability of guns, but more toxic is the learned habit of casually carrying them and using them. Kansas City’s 2023 crime data (it was the deadliest year ever recorded for the city) list ‘arguments’ as the single biggest cause of homicide…
“This ugly culture hurts vulnerable groups by far the hardest: Black men made up 65% of 2023 KC murder victims, in a city a bit over 26% black… Yes, progressives must abandon their quests to normalize crime. But this rot can’t be fixed without taking a long, hard look at the cultural foundation of too much of this country.”
Editorial Board, New York Post
The left argues that further gun restrictions and enforcement are necessary to prevent shootings.
The left argues that further gun restrictions and enforcement are necessary to prevent shootings.
“In response to shootings, gun advocates often argue that more guns are the answer, that having a so-called ‘good guy with a gun’ helps as they can stop a ‘bad guy with a gun.’… As [Kansas City Mayor Quinton] Lucas noted, however, despite the strong presence of armed security and law enforcement at the Chiefs parade, the shooting still occurred and resulted in injuries and a fatality…
“‘We had over 800 officers there, staffed, situated all around Union Station today. We had security in any number of places, eyes on top of buildings and beyond — and there still is a risk to people,’ Lucas said…“Per a Texas State University study, police were able to stop less than a third of active attacks — including shootings — between 2000 and 2022. Lucas’s statements and the circumstances in Kansas City ultimately underscore a grim reality: A central problem in these shootings is the guns themselves.”
Li Zhou, Vox
“Out of concern for public safety, we have decided to limit the number of over-the-counter allergy pills a person can buy, but we sell an endless supply of bullets to anyone. We have accepted having our private parts inspected at the airport because one terrorist attempted to ignite explosives embedded in his underwear 15 years ago. And yet politicians pretend that it’s difficult to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers…
“We can’t send our kids to school, the movies or even a Super Bowl parade flooded with more than 800 law enforcement officers without worrying about guns. That’s not safer living. That’s living under siege… Will the Chiefs parade shooting inspire enough Republican voters to make a change?”
LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times
“America’s leaders are not serious about enforcing existing gun laws. The agency responsible for enforcing our gun safety regulations is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That agency must try, somehow, to enforce gun laws, track guns used in violent crime, inspect gun shops that don’t comply with rules, work gang cases and cases involving other dangerous groups that acquire stolen weapons or other unlawfully obtained weapons…
“They must do all that and investigate arson and bombings with only about 2,600 special agents. That’s fewer than the number of total employees at the Kansas City Police Department. It’s laughable. We’re playing pretend about gun safety restrictions.”
Frank Figliuzzi, MSNBC
