US President Joe Biden expressed his regret this Wednesday over the shooting that occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, during the parade dedicated to the victory of the Chiefs football team. Super Bowlagain calling for an assault weapons ban.

“The Super Bowl is the most unifying event in the United States.. There is nothing that unites us more. And celebrating a Super Bowl victory is a moment of incomparable joy for the winning team and its fans. “To see this joy turned into tragedy in Kansas City today touches the American soul deeply,” he said.

Biden pledged that “today’s events should galvanize, shock and shame us” into “acting” in the face of gun violence. “What are we waiting for? What else do we need to see? “How many more families will have to be destroyed?” he asked in a White House statement.

Thus, he once again called for the initiation of a series of measures that include assault weapons ban, restrictions on high-capacity magazines, or increased background checks. “The time has come to act (…) We know what we need to do, we just need the courage to do it,” he said.

The President recalled that this Wednesday marks six years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, in which A 24-year-old man armed with a machine gun killed 17 people -14 students and three workers – and injured 14 others, and February 13 last year marked one year since the shooting at Michigan State University, which left three students dead and five injured.

Moreover, on this day three police officers received gunshot wounds, two of them seriously, trying to execute an arrest warrant for animal cruelty in Washington; while in another case, four students were injured in a shooting at Benjamin Mays High School in Atlanta.

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After that, he believed that the United States should become “a country in which people should have the right to go to school, go to church, walk down the street and attend the Super Bowl celebration without fear to die as a result of armed violence.”

“Until now We’ve had more mass shootings in 2024 than days in a year.. The epidemic of gun violence tears families and communities apart every day. Some make the news, although most (of them don’t), but all of them are unacceptable,” the American leader said.

He also added that he and First Lady Jill Biden are praying for the victims and that the country “find the determination to end this epidemic “without the feeling of gun violence tearing us apart.”

At least during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. one person died and 22 were injured, including children, in a shootout in Kansas City that was expected to be attended by about a million people and involved 800 officers. Authorities arrested three people allegedly involved in the attack. (Europe Press)