Mayor Q Leads Chorus For Gun Reform After Deadly Mass Shooting

Kansas City's Mayor was front and center for a recent rally against gun violence. 

The reality is that he absolutely understand that gun laws aren't going to change any time soon. 

Still . . . His sentiments offer encouragement to an impressive weekend gathering of progressive constituents ahead of election season.

Here's a quote from his recent call-to-action . . .

“In the last year, we’ve had shootings at Oak Park Mall, Independence Center, Crown Center, outside Union Station,” said Mayor Quinton Lucas. “We can’t keep living like this.”

The rally happened within walking distance of where the parade shooting happened. The group gathered on Saturday expressed its collective frustration with local gun laws.

“Enough is enough!” chanted the crowd. “Enough is enough!”

Lucas said he hopes Kansas City can find a commonsense solution to gun violence.

“I don’t want us 20 years from now to be saying, ‘We don’t have parades anymore because of x or y thing.’ I don’t want us to be looking over our shoulders,” Lucas said. “We need to have somewhere to be, somewhere to go, somewhere to live. That’s why I think you see so many people saying, ‘Enough is enough,’ today.”

While the parade shooting was the catalyst for Saturday’s rally, it was about much more than Wednesday’s violence. Kansas City is coming off its deadliest year on record with 182 homicides. Elected leaders called for changes to the law.

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