Another city is added to the long list of those stigmatized by incidents that transcend human reason and once again raise the huge problem of gun ownership and its powerful lobby in the United States. In two days, the school year would end at Unwalde, Texas, a 16,000-year-old elementary school when an 18-year-old man stormed in and cut the lives of 19 children, no older than 10, and two adults. What drives an 18-year-old to cause such a massacre at school? What is finally happening in this country?
Biden: “We must act”
There are no answers, and worst of all, there are no solutions as long as politics in the transatlantic country is held captive by the NRA, which is dominated by powerful politicians, gun lobbyists, and public figures in the United States. The new drama in elementary school found US President Biden returning from a visit to Japan. At the White House, with his black-haired wife Jill by his side and tears in his eyes, he said: “I’m tired of it. We have to act. And do not tell me we can not influence this carnage. I spent my career as “Senator and Vice President working for the enactment of weapons laws that touch on common sense. We can not and will not prevent every tragedy, but we know that (the laws) work and have a positive impact.”
Biden’s statement outlines in a most characteristic way the limits of a president’s institutional tools to control a timeless scourge that is now becoming an “epidemic” of armed violence. Jake Bleiberg, a reporter for the Associated Press, describes it very aptly.
“It has become almost normal in all US”
“This is now the deadliest incident at a school in the United States since the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 20 people,” he said. “And it comes less than two weeks after a gunman in Buffalo opened fire on a supermarket, killing ten people, in an attack that was described as hate crime and specifically targeted blacks. It is therefore just the latest in a wave “gun violence has become almost commonplace throughout the United States.”
Details of the Latin American-born perpetrator, like most of the town of Unwalde, are slowly coming to light. However, it seems that he planned his heinous act and carried it out until he was found by police bullets. It’s a diabolical coincidence that next weekend the NRA gun organization is holding its annual convention in Houston, Texas. The two Texas Republican senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornin, are expected to attend, as well as former President Trump. Cruz said he was praying for the victims of the school in Unwalde, but also warned Democratic politicians and members of the press not to try to restrict constitutional rights. “A crime cannot be prevented,” he said.
Irini Anastassopoulou / AP, DPA, Reuters
Source: Deutsche Welle
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