school massacre

How can this new tragedy be tolerated? How can we look the other way when there are twenty-one coffins of innocent people in front of us? Nineteen children and two teachers, Killed at Robb Primary School in Uvalde (Texas). A school! Where kids go to learn how to be happy that morning. Parents who left their children there, believing they were in the safest place in the world, had to lift their bodies with excruciating pain. Awakening with the dream of helping their students, these two teachers never thought that it would cost them their lives. Anger, sadness, lethargy.

Join, Salvador Ramos, An eighteen-year-old teenager shot his grandmother first and then went to school. A young man with no criminal record and no mental disorder. Without hesitation, he bought two assault rifles for three thousand five hundred dollars and used them forty-eight hours later to sow death in a school. Announced on the networks:

– I will shoot in elementary school.

Despite being of Latino descent, Salvador was a US citizen. He was shot by the police. Another death.

I think it is indisputable that the indiscriminate sale of firearms has led to a repeat of such massacres in the United States, most of them in schools. Because this is not the first time. Unfortunately it won’t be the last. The history of massacres in American schools is gruesome. For frequent and overwhelming.

Aren’t many political and citizen reactions hypocritical in a country where arms sales bring so much benefit and so much disaster? There will be a barrage of statements of refusal, the minutes will be kept, there will be condemnation of the arms trade… The truth will be forgotten, the rejection will disappear, the wave of criticism will subside… until another similar event gives the same reaction.

In a post-game appearance, Warriors coach Steve Kerr put the sport aside and urged politicians to do something with tremendous emotion and extreme anger. He said that he was tired of all these minutes of silence, despite the fact that the law that puts the weapons that allow the lives of boys and girls in school classrooms into the hands of citizens did not move. His father was killed in a gunfight when he was a child. He knows very well what he’s talking about. His pain and anger have very deep roots.

Uvalde-born Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey asks his compatriots to look in the mirror after shooting. He asks them to attack the very foundations of the status quo that only cause pain and misery.

The president of the United States said: “For God’s sake, when are we going to oppose the gun lobby?”

America has more guns than people. The gun culture that exists in the world’s greatest power is disgusting. Guns replace books. They are cult objects. And the use of weapons caused more deaths than any of those involved in the war. But just as slavery or apartheid has ended, so can the culture of violence..

There are many citizens who take their phone and gun while leaving the house. They are familiar objects associated with security rather than risk. I’ve seen families with up to two hundred guns these days in one report. When the head of the family was asked by a Spanish journalist whether all these weapons were weapons of war, he replied:

  • They are recreational weapons, not weapons of war.

Fun? Can you explain this to the families of the children who died in the Uvalde school? What is the fun that causes so much tears, so much pain?

The economic interests of the arms industry are above people’s lives. The four hundred billion dollars produced by the arms industry in the United States seems to be reason enough for the deaths. The very strong National Rifle Association argues that the solution to such situations in schools is to arm teachers. That same weekend, after three years of suspension due to the pandemic, the same state of Texas, about 400 kilometers from Uvalde, celebrates its convention, where they still mourn their children killed by the guns they will glorify at the convention. . as cult objects. Former President Donald Trump will also attend the convention. As long as he is talking, there can be no weapons in the room. Aren’t guns harmless? Aren’t they just for defense? I’m sure they will mourn the death of nineteen schoolchildren and two teachers. I think this excuse is a mockery. The massacre would not have happened if Salvador Ramos had not been able to buy the rifles.

The argument justifying the sale is that citizens have the right to protect themselves from possible attack and the duty to protect their families. Again the stupid slogan: “If you want peace, prepare for war”.

The Second Amendment (or Amendment II) to the United States Constitution, proposed on September 25, 1789 and ratified on December 15, 1791, protects the right of the American people to own and bear arms. The United States is one of the countries with the least restrictions on obtaining firearms. The United States Supreme Court has clarified the text of the constitution many times: it affirmed that the right to bear arms is an individual right that all Americans have, but it also declared that the right is neither unlimited nor unlimited. prohibits the regulation of the manufacture and purchase of firearms or similar devices.

Despite numerous lawsuits, sociopolitical debates continue. Proponents of the right to bear arms say that an armed population exercises better self-defense and prevents government authority from becoming tyrants. Gun control advocates say American cities would be safer if there weren’t so many guns, but gun rights advocates argue that when law-abiding citizens arm themselves, they act “faster and better” than others. American police, and therefore guns, reduce crime rates. .

It’s unbelievable that each of these murders led to an increase in gun sales. The logical response in any other culture would be to end their sale.

These days I see the news of gun sales fairs where kids are walking with their families through all kinds of guns. There are areas for training in them. A teacher was teaching her ten-year-old daughter how to aim.

Trying to pull out the guns is political suicide. This means that the public withdraws their support from anyone who promises to end gun sales. And for me, the real issue is here. It is the citizens who must meticulously analyze what is happening. These massacres do not happen in societies where the sale of weapons is prohibited. Why will it happen? It is necessary to prioritize human life, not the money of the business. Let the parents of the murdered children speak. Would they support the possibility that Salvador had bought these two rifles so easily?

Vox president Santiago Abascal says a radical and urgent change in Spanish laws for distributing weapons is needed. It is the same philosophy that has made possible a series of attacks on schools in the United States. Does Mr. Abascal like this kind of massacre, which we have to endure with unbearable frequency?

I heard the phrase “An armed society is an educated society” in a news published these days. Quite the opposite: An educated society is an unarmed society in which everyone, without exception, can live freely. In an educated society, the duty of protection is done by the police, and the punishment of the criminals by the judges.

One last line to denounce the backlog of fraudulent revelations about the massacre. What a world we are. You have to fight tirelessly to make it better. Let’s say it all together: It’s up to me not to stay.

Source: Informacion

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