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Highlander wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:58 pm

Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:40 am

ericwyner wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:32 am

what about checkpoints near the state at Union Station or parade route?

Far too difficult to implement security checkpoints when an event is drawing hundreds of thousands over a mile+ of area. To be a truly secure event, you’d need to vacate all buildings during these events on the parade route. We shouldn’t lock ourselves up and away because of this tragedy. We can come together and move on, but if we want a secure environment for large events like this, it has to go far beyond reason and get extremely difficult to implement adequately.

The shooters were not trying to kill people, just each other, it could have happened anywhere on the way to the event or on the way out, there were plenty of potential innocent bystanders everywhere.

being kids, they probably didn't have much experience with their choice of firearms and just shot randomly in the crowd with their targets being each other, most of other homicides haven't been in large crowds

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Latest parade video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSYZ8aK5Q4

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 39880.html

Update:
6 people fired shots
3 more people are being charged for providing the illegal weapons used.
Illegal weapons used.

Is any gun illegal in Missouri these days?

missingkc wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:19 am Is any gun illegal in Missouri these days?

They're just "undocumented weapons."

missingkc wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:19 am Is any gun illegal in Missouri these days?

Same one's that have been for decades. I can't think of the last time I read about a gun death using a legally purchased gun to be honest. I love the fact they went after those who sold the guns illegally. We need much more of that!

im2kull wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:17 pm https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 39880.html

Update:
6 people fired shots
3 more people are being charged for providing the illegal weapons used.
Illegal weapons used.

Update:
TWELVE people brandished firearms during the altercation at the parade where the shooting began.
At least SIX shooters were identified.
Four of the shooters have been charged.

3 non-shooters have been charged for assisting the others in illegally acquiring their guns.

Prosecutor JPB decided to pursue charges against a bystander who picked up and surrendered one of the parade shooters guns to police after the shooter dropped it. Sounds like an Onion article, but I promise this is real life with JPB at the helm.


https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/prosecu ... e-shooting
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/pa ... at-we-know

None of these links source your "UPDATE". Please provide the source of this information.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:45 am None of these links source your "UPDATE". Please provide the source of this information.

Which part? I'm confused.. it's all literally within the news articles.

Unless you're saying that the news articles don't completely state THEIR (the news) sources? I'm assuming that would be the Jackson County courthouse docket itself?

Appreciate the UPDATE from March news stories.