(28 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis, 28 August 2025
1. Wide of the briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis:
"Families in Minneapolis are mourning. Our Greater Annunciation Fellowship is mourning. Our entire city is united in grief, and at the same time, based on this incredible group of people that has assembled here in City Hall, we are also united in action."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis:
"We need a statewide and a federal ban on assault weapons."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis:
"We need a statewide and a federal ban on high-capacity magazines. There is no reason that someone should be able to reel off 30 shots before they even have to reload. We’re not talking about your father’s hunting rifle here. We’re talking about guns that are built to pierce armor and kill people."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis:
"To the extent other levels of government are either unwilling or unable to keep cities safe, let us do it ourselves. We are responsible for 435,000 residents that call Minneapolis home and many more that come and go. I think we’d be happy to ban assault rifles here in Minneapolis."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis:
"I know we’d happy to prevent a next mass shooting from taking place."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leah Kondes, Minneapolis local group of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America:
"We cannot call ourselves a free country when parents cannot send their kids to school without wondering if they will come home alive."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leah Kondes, Minneapolis local group of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America:
"Sending kids to schools should not mean sending them into a war zone. Enough is enough. Our children deserve better. Our teachers deserve better, our communities deserve better."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Emma Greenman (D) Minnesota:
"And we know that this is not a uniquely Minnesota issue. It is a national issue. And as our congresswoman Omar said, over and over again, and has said we need a national solution. So we are going to get to work here in Minnesota. We have been getting to work behind me, whether it’s Representative Frazier, Representative Mueller, and many others that my colleague, Senator Mohamed mentioned, have been working night and day, years after years. And we are gonna get it done, but what we know is Washington has to solve this problem with us."
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STORYLINE:
A shooting at a Catholic church full of school children in Minneapolis has prompted calls for action by Minnesota’s elected officials. But translating action into policy may be difficult in a state that mirrors the nation’s partisan divisions and split opinions on how best to prevent mass shootings.
A day after the deadly shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Thursday called for a statewide and federal ban on certain semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines at a City Hall press conference surrounded by gun control advocates and various officials. If others don’t act, Frey suggested that city officials may attempt to do so themselves.
“I think we’d be happy to ban assault rifles here in Minneapolis,” Frey said to applause. “I know we’d be happy to prevent a next mass shooting from taking place."
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