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Legislators from several levels of the minnesota government were joined by proponents of weapons control in Minneapolis on Thursday to invite the control of the state and federal weapon after shooting to the Catholic Church on Wednesday, in which two children were killed and 18 other people, mostly children, wounded.
“Here we are again,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, Executive Director Action Action Moms, because politicians would rather protect profit from lobbying weapons than protecting our children. “
In the United States, deadly weapons violence has become increasingly common in schools, churches and other settings that once considered to be safe, despite the efforts to improve safety and identify potential perpetrators before they can act. And every new mass shooting enhances a long -term national discussion of an approach to weapons.
In the attack on Wednesday, the shooter, armed with a rifle, gun and shotgun – all obtained legally, according to the police – they shot through the stained glass windows of the church in students from the associated school, sitting in Pews for service to celebrate the beginning of the new school year.
Two children, aged eight and 10, were killed in shooting.
The mayor calls for a ban on attacking weapons
Police said on Thursday that the scorer fired 116 laps of the rifle to the church.
At the afternoon press conference at the City Hall, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey invited the state and federal prohibition for the attack on the weapons and magazines of great capacity.
“There is no reason for anyone to be able to eliminate 30 shots before they have to recharge at all,” he said.
“We’re not talking about your father’s hunting rifle here. We’re talking about the weapons built to break the armor and kill people.”
The Supreme Court’s decision in the USA from 2008 confirmed the right of individual Americans to own weapons.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, speaking Wednesday after a deadly shooting in a church that hosted the children of Catholic schools, urged people to stop together and support the affected families. “Each of us has to wrap their hands around these families, giving them every ounce we can collect.”
The mayor took into account the opinion of many Conservatives Pro-Gun who claim that the prevalence of weapons of weapons in the US is a question of mental health, unrelated to access to firearms.
“People who say,” This is not about weapon, “you have to joke. This is a weapon,” Frey said on Thursday in an earlier interview with ABC News.
Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota spoke about the survivor of the war in Somalia At the age of eight, he never dreams of practicing active exercises in the United States.
“Something is basically broken,” she said.
There were 286 mass shootings in the US this year, from August 27, according to Archive of weapons violencea non -profit group. Defines a mass shooting as one where four or more people were killed or wounded, not including Sagittarius.
The second day of the Republican national convention was focused on security in the United States, with border safety and immigration of a key topic, but not control of weapons – even after attempting to assassinate Donald Trump.
There is no criminal history
At a separate new conference on Thursday, the Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that the scorer had no criminal history and had no mental health obligation and therefore nothing would prevent the attacker from buying a weapon.
State and federal authorities have announced that the shooter was driven by hatred, which is a fascination with mass shootings and a desire for notority.
“Shooter idolized some of the most notorious mass and school shooters in the history of our country,” said Joseph H. Thompson, acting of an American District Prosecutor in Minnesota.
City officials in Minneapolis on Thursday increased to 15, the number of children wounded Wednesday in shooting at the Catholic Church of the announcement, with three parishioners in the 80s who were also injured. One child was in a critical state on Thursday, while another 11 victims were left in hospitals.
“The 10-year-old boy had more courage, hiding in the church bench, while his friend protected him with his body, than I saw more than too many lawmakers who looked more in a weapon lobby than a child,” Ferrell-Zabala said.
“No more excuses. The prayers did not save these children as the fire fire rang as they really prayed. The action would have.”
The mother and daughter describe moments of fear and confusion after a deadly shooting at the Church of the Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Suzanne Garcia said she was at work when she heard about the shooting and ran to the scene looking for her daughter Clarissa, a fifth grade at school.
