United States: shooting in Kansas City during the Super Bowl parade
At least one person died and nine others were injured in shootings this Wednesday, February 14 during the parade in Kansas City celebrating the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory, said firefighters in this city in Missouri, in the central United States. -United.
Police officers rushing after shots fired during Super Bowl victory celebrations in Kansas City, February 14, 2024. © Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
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Tens of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Kansas City for the parade of the Kansas Chiefs, winners
of the Super Bowl
on Sunday , the annual high mass of American football. The traditional line of double-decker buses moved up Grand Boulevard toward the old Union Station, where gunfire erupted as the parade drew to a close. “
I thought they were fireworks
,” John O'Connor told
The Kansas City Star
, explaining that he heard “
between 15 and 20 shots in a short period of time
.”
Two people were arrested. Among them, a man dressed in red jogging pants. The shooting left at least one dead and nine injured. Three of them are in critical condition and five in serious condition, said a fire department spokesperson.
Breaking news: incident inside Union Station as Chiefs Super Bowl Parade ends. Major police presence. Details unknown. pic.twitter.com/3kznCU05fn
— EricAdler (@eadler) February 14, 2024
Shootings still very frequent in the United States
The
United States
is paying a very heavy price for the spread of firearms on its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them. The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one adult in three owns at least one weapon and nearly one adult in two lives in a home where there is a weapon. The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, incomparable to that of other developed countries. About 49,000 people died from gunshots in 2021, compared to 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record year. This represents more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.
Faced with this, the United States Congress has not adopted an ambitious law, many elected officials being under the influence of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA), the leading American arms lobby. In fact, in a country where the possibility of owning a firearm is considered by millions of Americans as a fundamental constitutional right, the only recent legislative advances remain marginal, such as the generalization of criminal and psychiatric background checks above all. purchase of weapon.
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(With
AFP)
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