Kansas City Mayor Q Blames Missouri GOP For Homicide Crisis (Again)

The punchline . . . 

Today's quote from the newspaper seems to imagine that Prez Biden will save us all . . .

Check Mayor Q seemingly not interested in getting serious about this problem . . .

As city officials look for solutions to the violence, they have often been hamstrung by loose state gun laws enacted by the Republican-controlled General Assembly.

But in Washington, Lucas sees a potential new tool to keep guns away from those who already have a violent criminal record.

Federal law requires businesses selling guns to conduct background checks on buyers, but many guns sales online and at gun shows aren’t covered. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wants to expand the definition of business to cover more firearms dealers.

The agency estimates that as few as 24,500 to as many as 328,000 sellers nationwide could be affected by the rule.

Mayor Quinton Lucas said that because Kansas City police is controlled by a board of police commissioners almost entirely appointed by the governor and not by elected officials, some of the most aggressive steps city officials can take on gun violence is to encourage federal action.

“I actually think this is one of the more effective ways, under our current system in a state that seems uninterested in looking at other ways, more ways, that we can try and reduce gun violence – this is probably the best that we have,” Lucas said.

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KC mayor meets with White House officials on gun violence as city nears homicide record

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas met with White House officials on Wednesday about a proposed ATF regulation to expand background checks and other steps to prevent gun violence.