In the aftermath of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win, the shooting that scarred the celebration sparked a push for gun control in Missouri. Eventually, we found out what happened, and there were plenty of laws on the books that were broken, and in the end, cooler heads prevailed.
Now, two years later, there's been another shooting, this time in a nightclub, and the push is starting all over again, apparently.
When one person was killed and more than 20 people were shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally in 2024, the mass shooting sparked the loudest outcry for changes to Missouri’s gun laws in recent history.
In the two years since, nothing changed. Over the course of two legislative sessions in Missouri and Kansas, lawmakers returned to their districts without passing any new limits on guns or additional safety requirements.And then over the weekend — just hours after the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Union Station — gunfire erupted once again in Kansas City. This time it was inside a nightclub on Kansas City’s Westside. Two women died; two others were injured.
The fatal shooting early Sunday morning has once again renewed a debate over Missouri’s gun laws, among the loosest in the nation. It also highlighted the plague of gun violence in Kansas City, where local leaders have long struggled to combat homicides and fatal shootings.
Fascinating.
However, much like the shooting two years ago, the facts show something familiar.
See, DNA was left behind on a hat. That DNA led to the arrest of a man named Dante M. Brooks, and the charges against him are rather illuminating.
A Kansas City man is behind bars, charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with a weekend shooting at Status Nightclub on Southwest Blvd. that left two women dead and two others hurt.
Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced Feb. 17 that Dontae M. Brooks faces two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of armed criminal action, one count of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault, one count of unlawful use of a weapon, and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
That last charge is the most interesting.
See, in Missouri, that's what you charge a prohibited person with if they have a gun. In other words, Brooks appears to be a felon who, despite all the laws on the books designed to keep him from owning a gun, still got one and then allegedly used it to kill two people and injure two others.
Now, let's say that I was open to gun control in some manner. I'm not, mind you, but let's say I were.
One thing I'd want to know is that there's no law on the books already intending to prevent this sort of thing from happening beyond the laws against, you know, shooting people. Can someone just walk into a store and buy a gun despite being a felon or something? There are? Then what good did that do?
Moreover, if someone will break the law to get a gun, as it stands, what laws are you going to put in place to prevent them from getting a gun that they won't break all over again?
I mean, it's one thing to give up a little liberty for security--a bad idea, mind you--but it's another to give up a little liberty to get nothing in return. Yes, you deserve that if that's your "thinking," but it's a terrible trade just the same.
And two years ago, Missouri made the right call.
They should do the same here and now.
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