“Do you care about our kids?” Minnesota parents demanded a firearm ban after deadly shooting | Minnesota

Parents with some children injured in recent children Deadly school shooting In Minnesota, as the split legislature prepares to demand greater gun safety measures as it debates the state’s response this week.

Mother and father publicly showcase the acute pain their children suffered in last month’s Last Month Shooter’s attack They killed two children and injured 17 people while praying in Catholic schools Traumatize the community in southern Minneapolis.

In powerful testimony, Vivian St Clair, the nine-year-old daughter of Malia Kimbrell, is recovering from two gunfires in the back explain She will “do nothing” instead of immediately banning semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines.

“I will get the name of any legislator that is holding this situation, and I will invite you to my living room and insist that you hold Vivian’s hand every night as you hold her clothes, she’s crying.”

“You can look into her eyes while cleaning the bullet wound and can tell her why her face is against keeping her safe. Why is a semi-automatic rifle more valuable than her life,” she said. “To our legislators and those in power: what exactly do you want to do?

Kimbrell’s speech at the medical center where she works, his treatment of his daughter, the day after U.S. Vice President JD Vance met the victim’s family. In the family that met Vance, there are the parents of 12-year-old Lydia Kaiser who underwent brain surgery to remove bullet debris.

In a letter to Vance, Lydia’s father, Harry Kaiser explain: “In terms of gun violence, can you assure me that as fathers and Catholics, you will seriously support research that has problems with our culture, and that we are the worst mass shooter problem in this country?”

Kaiser added: “Despite the strong hall, some common sense, bipartisan legislation as a starting point, you can also guarantee the pursuit so that we can come out of our corners and find the values ​​we share so that some progress has been made this time. Thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

Similarly, the mother of six-year-old David Haeg, Brittany Haeg, was shot dead, urging lawmakers to impose stricter gun control as she described her son’s suffering from a torn spleen and head plunder due to multiple gunshot wounds.

“He became depressed, sad, stubborn … and angry,” she said, adding: “I hope Minnesota Councillors make changes…Minnesota has many laws related to gun control and regulation, and it is nice that states are doing this, but there are limits to what individual states can do without ethnic changes. ”

Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz is holding a special meeting on gun legislation. Will propose A “very comprehensive” package for gun control.

“I’m going to need some Republicans to break with orthodoxy and say we need to do something on guns,” he said.

However, the state legislature is still split, with Republicans focusing on improving school safety and mental health resources, while many Democrats pushing for stricter gun regulations.

Kimbrell acknowledged that many people hunt or have licenses to carry hidden guns and said “this is not what I’m saying”, asking lawmakers to stop stopping military-style rifles for the public.

House Republicans in Minnesota release School Safety Agenda This focuses on school safety measures and more mental health treatments than gun control.

Lisa DeMuth, Republican Speaker of Minnesota, issued a statement to his guardian, saying: “If [Walz] Decided to hold a special meeting, anything we do requires bipartisan support… This special one is if Gov. Walz and Democrats focus on partisan allegations and demands [legislative] The meeting will not work for the people of Minnesota. ”

“What we are going to do for them is to provide a real, tangible security upgrade to every school in the state, so we don’t have to doubt whether the worst will happen,” Republican state representative Elliot Engen said in a telephone interview.

“If it was just politicized as 100% of the gun debate, it would be a sad, missed a real leadership opportunity.”

By contrast, Democrats support attack weapons restrictions.

“I fully support a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in our state, as do the majority of Minnesotans… It’s my hope that our Republican colleagues would join us to pass meaningful reforms that strike at the heart of this problem – the availability of and access to military-grade weapons of war that belong nowhere near our communities,” state senator and DFL member Liz Bolden said in an emailed statement.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers defended the transgender community after reports that Sagittarius had changed its name and gender to women five years ago.

DFL stands for David Gottfried explain: “Sadly, some of my Republican colleagues are using this tragedy to attack our trans neighbors. It’s misleading, misunderstood and exacerbating the invasive action taken by the Trump administration… It’s the lowest, most shameful form of politics, and I condemn it with all my heart.”

Similarly, DFL Representative Leigh Finke is the first transgender to be elected to the state legislature. explain: “This is a problem of Internet extremism and radicalization, just like gun violence, these are not transgender issues. These are American issues.”

This criticism happened recently Report The Trump administration is exploring a ban on transgender Americans from owning guns.

In June, Melissa Hortman, a representative of the Democratic State of Minnesota, Being killed A state senator was injured by a gunman, with a range of political goals.

Other reports by Anna Betts