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One person has died and 22 people were wounded in a shooting at the end of a parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win, authorities said. Terrified fans ran for cover in Missouri on Wednesday as yet another high-profile public event was marred by gun violence. One of those victims — a mother of two identified by her radio station as a DJ — was killed. Eight children were among the 22 people hit by gunfire - all are expected to recover. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said three people had been arrested following the shooting. She said fans may have been involved in tack...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden called again Tuesday for stricter gun control measures while denouncing a wave of shootings that overshadowed Independence Day. Five people were killed and four wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia Monday night, police said. Another shooting overnight in Fort Worth, Texas, claimed the lives of three and injured eight, CNN reported. And as of Tuesday afternoon, the country had already seen multiple shootings on Independence Day. Five were injured in Lansing, Michigan, and four hurt in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA)...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Wednesday led a moment of silence at a vigil for victims of gun violence and urged a ban on military style weapons commonly used in mass shootings. Biden addressed the Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence at a Washington, DC, church, saying that the increasingly frequent mass shootings are tearing the country apart. It's "violence that rips at the very soul, at the very soul of this nation," a somber Biden said. Reflecting on his own family tragedy, including losing his first wife and infant daughter in a car accident, then one of h...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first significant federal bill on gun safety in decades, saying that while it falls short of what's really needed it will "save lives." "While this bill doesn't do everything I want, it does include actions I've long called for that are going to save lives," he said at the White House before leaving for two major diplomatic summits in Europe. The gun legislation includes enhanced background checks for younger buyers and federal cash for states introducing "red flag" laws that allow courts to temporarily remove weapons from ...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers broke a decades-long stalemate on firearms control Friday, passing the first major safety regulations in almost 30 years, less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court bolstered the right to bear arms. Gun regulation is a touchstone issue for both conservatives and liberals in the United States that has consumed national politics amid multiple mass shootings in recent years. The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted to rubber-stamp a bipartisan Senate gun bill that -- while modest -- amounts to the first significant piece of legislation to regulate firearms...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators advanced a bipartisan bill late Thursday addressing the epidemic of gun violence convulsing the country, approving a narrow package of new firearms restrictions and billions of dollars in mental health and school security funding. The reforms -- which are almost certain to be rubber-stamped by the House of Representatives on Friday -- fall short of the demands of gun safety advocates and President Joe Biden, but have been hailed as a life-saving breakthrough after almost 30 years of inaction by Congress. "This bipartisan legislation will help protect Americans," ...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators unveiled a bill Tuesday addressing the epidemic of gun violence plaguing the country as they locked down a narrow set of reforms that were nevertheless hailed as the first significant firearms controls in a generation. The cross-party group, which had been working for weeks on the wording of the legislation, voiced confidence that it would have enough support to pass the Senate, and it could be signed into law by President Joe Biden as soon as next week. The limited proposals don't go as far as reforms called for by Biden, such as an all-out ban on assault rifles...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday made a fervent appeal for lawmakers to pass tougher gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons, to curb a scourge of mass shootings turning American communities into "killing fields." Biden made the 17-minute address -- his latest call for tougher firearms measures -- with 56 lighted candles arrayed along a long corridor behind him, representing US states and territories suffering from gun violence. "How much more carnage are we willing to accept?" the president asked in the speech, which he delivered with anger in his voice, and ...
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Washington (AFP) - A cross-party group of US senators was set to renew talks Thursday on a narrow package of firearms controls, as lawmakers face calls to tackle soaring gun violence including recent massacres in Texas and New York State. Nine senators have been meeting this week to discuss a response to the mass shootings that have appalled the nation, projecting optimism over the prospects for modest reforms. The group has focused on school security, bolstering mental health services and incentives for states to grant to courts "red flag" authority to temporarily remove guns from owners cons...
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Washington (AFP) - The man accused of killing eight people at a string of Atlanta-area spas pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four murder charges, ensuring he will spend the rest of his life in prison, US court documents showed. A judge in Cherokee County, Georgia, where one of the spas was located, sentenced Robert Aaron Long to four life sentences without parole, plus 35 years, based on a plea deal that spared the 22-year-old from the death penalty, the sentencing document read. However, Long could still face capital punishment for the killing of four other victims in Fulton County, where Atlanta...
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