Check out the mayor’s emotional speech after the shooting at a Catholic school
Mayor Jacob Frey called for a change after children died in Minneapolis during a shooting at a church school.
Former President Barack Obama urged Americans not to be paralyzed after another massive shooting this week, killing two children and injuring at least 17 people after assailants attacked the Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
Authorities say the 23-year-old suspect is a school-houser and was fired from the windows that house the school, taking the lives of eight and 10-year-olds sitting in the Pews.
“We cannot allow ourselves to be paralyzed by mass shooting,” Obama said in an August 27 statement published on multiple social media platforms.
“What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking and Michelle and I pray for parents sitting at their hospital bedside after losing their child or another unspeakable and unnecessary act of violence.”
President Obama faced dozens of similar incidents during his tenure, including Tucson Congressional Event Shooting, which injured Arizona Sen. Gabby Giffords in 2011. Two separate shootings in Fort Hood, Texas in 2009 and again in 2014. Aurora Cinema was filmed in 2012. And the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre claimed 49 lives and injured 53 people.
In 2012, Obama cried out as he spoke at the White House after Sandy Hook Elementary School, which shot in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 children between the ages of six and seven.
“We have endured many of these tragedys over the past few years,” Obama said at the time. “And every time I learn the news, I react as someone else does, not as a president. As a parent. And that was especially true today.
Democrats seeking gun control measures when Vance keeps prayers
During his last year as president, Obama worked on gun violence, calling it the “unfinished business one-piece” of his administration.
However, his emotional charm and political lifting were constantly hampered by Republicans and other gun rights advocates who argued that regulating firearms for law-abiding citizens was wrong, which made it impossible to garner sufficient support in Congress.
Several Democratic officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, are scheduled to hold an August 28 press conference “seek actions that include banning offensive weapons and large-capacity magazines,” according to a media release that announced the event.
Prayer services for peace and healing are also held at St. Paul’s Cathedral. There, hundreds of mourners have already gathered to honor the victims on the August 27 vigil to mourn their families. However, some liberal commentators have assaulted them in response to the shooting, and say that the call to prayer is a deaf response given the victim is inside the church.
“Prayers aren’t funny enough,” Jen Psaki, a former White House press secretary during the Biden administration, said in an August 27 post on X. “Prayer doesn’t end school shootings.
These comments were responsible from Vice President JD Vance, who replied that Psaki’s message was attacking people for prayer.
“We pray because our hearts are broken,” Vance said in a post on August 28th. “We pray because we know that God will listen. We pray because we know that God can work in a mysterious way and capture further actions.”
