I am still flabbergasted when I learn that a crazed gunman has coldly shot vulnerable children whose only “crime” is to have been in the place chosen by the killer when he decided to carry out his gesture. despicable. Nearly a decade after the horrific 2012 attack on Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, about 140 kilometers west of San Antonio, caused the death of 19 children and two teachers.
The massacre of young children is another horrifying moment for a country marked by an almost relentless series of school massacres. And the prospects for national gun regulatory reform, even today, 10 years later, have not budged one iota since the Sandy Hook school attack.
And yet, last year, the House of Representatives passed two bills to expand background checks for gun purchases. One of these bills would have closed a loophole in private and online sales. The other would have extended the background check period. Both bills stalled in the Senate.
Gun advocates continually make the same argument: the problem is not the gun, but the one behind it. But how can a crank get hold of a gun without firing a shot, pointing it at children and coldly perpetrating his crime?
At the time, President Obama fought tooth and nail against the misuse of firearms. He lost his fight. Gun ownership seems to be ingrained in Americans’ DNA, and as long as the wind does not change direction, we will sadly witness the massacres of children who will never reach the age to own a gun. gun… like their father. Sad and macabre scenario!
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