gun violence

Two local bishops offered prayers for victims after a shooting left one person dead and more than 20 people injured at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.

The shooting has sparked outcry over both racial tensions and gun violence, with local and national leaders weighing in.

At least nine people were injured, including two LMPD officers, during the shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky.

The mass shootings are just some of the violent events with multiple casualties involving guns that have become more common in the United States in recent years.

Biden made remarks on the shooting that occurred that mornin at Covenant School on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., that three adults and three children dead.

The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”

Restricting access to high-powered firearms should be a simple decision, the cardinal said, drawing applause from the congregation.

The event has stunned the world because of the victim, the longest serving Japanese prime minister, but also because killing someone with a gun in the country of an estimated 125 million people is almost unheard of.