why are mass killings on the rise in the United States?

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D. Schlienger, A. Lay, Y. Moine, @RevelateursFTV, N. Berthelot – franceinfo

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On Tuesday May 24, 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a Texas elementary school. The list of heavy weapon massacres grows every year in the United States.

The scenario repeats itself inexorably: in 2012, in Connecticut (United States), 28 people, including 20 children, lost their lives. Already a mad shooter, already a primary school, already tears: those of the families and those of the then president, Barack Obama. Ten years later, nothing has changed. There are more mass shootings in the United States than days in the year, with 111 people dying every day. Tuesday evening, May 24, after the shooting at an elementary school in Texas, that caused the death of 19 children and two adults, the Democratic senator from Connecticut once again asked his peers to listen to him, and to regulate the sale and carrying of arms.

The right to carry a weapon is constitutional in the United States, it is the famous second amendment. A particularly difficult right to restrict, especially since the very powerful NRA, the arms lobby, keeps watch. It is the largest network in the United States. It multiplies advertising spots and finances political campaigns.


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