the shooting in a school raises again the question of carrying a weapon

French lawyer based in the United States committed to gun control, Olivier Piton reminds that each case of shooting is different and that it is necessary to wait to know the motives of the killer. However, the numbers speak for themselves. The death toll in mass killings has been steadily rising since 2018. Furthermore, “Texas is a state where selling guns is extremely easy. Children as young as 21 are able to [s’en] providesr,” he says.

Schools are regularly the target of such attacks. “The Last Great Mass Killing [au Texas]he was a 21-year-old student who entered a school with a firearm that had been given to him, precisely, for his 21st birthday“, recalls Olivier Piton. The question of the regulation of the carrying of weapons resurfaces regularly in the United States, according to these various tragedies. If the Democrats are favorable to it, the Republican camp mainly defends the freedom to carry weapons. armed.