The Americans are really crazy. Non-stop multiple mass shootings only happen there and nowhere else in the world. And what do they do? Inaction for the past 20+ years and to deny the facts and reality. It has become even more frequent and predictable.
Let’s look at the statistics first. Between 1968 to 2017, there were 1.5 million firearm deaths in America. That’s higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the War for Independence in 1776. In 2020 alone, 45,000 died at the hands of a gun, more than any year on record and it was a 43% increase from 2010.
Year to date 2022 (Jan to May), there were 213 mass shootings which included 27 school shootings. The latest school shooting is the 554th one since the Columbine massacre in 1999 ie about 25 per year. How the hell does a parent feel safe as they send their kid to school daily? Why is it only in America that school kids have regular drills to practise for mass shooter incidents? Guns are now the leading cause of childhood deaths in America, even topping car accidents.
The latest school shooting: a craze 18-year old killed 19 children and 2 teachers in a cold-blooded matter after shooting his grandmother. A survivor heard him telling the murdered kids, “It’s time to die now”. The killer worked at Wendy’s to save up $4k to purchase 2 AR15 assault weapons the moment he turned 18 a week ago. And this was just 10 days after another crazy 18 year old kid went to Buffalo to shoot and kill 10 persons of colour in a supermarket while sparring and apologizing to a white cashier. White supremacy and replacement theory nut case.
So it seems like you are only safe in America and stands a higher chance of survival if you are white. All other races are game for mass shooters. America as a country has the highest per capita ownership of guns that is twice the number of the next 2nd country. Why do they need so many guns for? Why is there a fetish for semi-automatic assault weapons meant for war?
So what is the solution now? More guns!! Every pro-gun idiot wants to encourage everyone to arm themselves to the teeth. They even suggest that schools should be fortified fortresses and make all teachers carry a gun to school. This is madness!
The 2nd amendment right to carry arms has been taken to ridiculous levels. The forefathers were talking about muskets and pistols hundreds of years ago, not military-grade assault weapons of mass destruction. Texas, where this school shooting happened, actually made it much easier to purchase guns late last year.
Elected officials can’t seem to get their act together to try to prevent this from happening again and again. GOP and Democrats blame each other. Republicans are so full of NRA money that they oppose gun reforms or tighter security checks, let alone doing the easy step to raise the minimum age of gun ownership. There are many things you can only do at 21 or need to apply and qualify for a license but yet 18 year olds currently can still easily obtain an assault weapon of choice.
Senate filibusters and the need to get 60 votes means that passing gun reforms are dead in the water even before they are proposed. Democrats have a slight majority (50+1) and need at least 10 GOP senators to pass the new policies. But the GOP votes as a block and refuse to budge or even try to negotiate a compromise.
It ironic that GOP is fighting Roe Vs Wade to protect the unborn babies, yet they refuse to protect the young ones that are already born. It is an outright contradiction. Wouldn’t making it harder for young teenagers to buy AR15s by raising the required age to 21 be a simple stop gap measure? No, they want more guns and make it even easier for everyone to own more guns. Madness!!
Americans are proud of their freedom and democracy but shouldn’t they be ashamed that they have the most number of gun deaths in the world? Inaction for more that 10 years after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and nothing has changed. Schools are no more a safe space but a soft target for innocents to be slaughtered.
90% of all Americans support some form of gun regulation but are held hostage by the minority and pro-gun lobbyists. The elected officials are not listening to the will of the people. They are blind to the violence and only worry about their re-elections. The current state of affairs is truly pathetic for a country that calls itself a superpower. It cannot seemed to get its act together for this specific national disease.
Nothing changes. We await the next massacre. Picture this: A mass shooting happens in a gun-friendly county and all the residents whip out their guns to try to shoot the perceived shooter, turning it into a Wild West movie set shootout. The police come in and see so many people with guns. Erring on the cautious side, the police assume that all are active shooters and proceed to mow down all of them with gunfire. The casualties will be horrendous. A shitshow is in the making and is likely to happen sometime in the foreseeable future.
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