We cannot speak of an isolated case if we note that since the beginning of the year there have been as many as 39 shootings within American schools and universities, while the year before there were 61 similar cases. The most appalling fact is that in the last ten years, in the USA, 900 have been the attacks in schools.
Experts tell us that the killers are almost all males, mainly in adolescence, suffering from mental distress, mostly victims of bullying and act mainly thanks to the emulation effect. An analysis based on statistics and an elementary "low psychology", which is of no use to prevent similar episodes.
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Yet the massacre at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, could be avoided at the right time since the harbingers of madness in Salvador Ramos, the young killer, were more than evident; before killing 19 pupils, 2 teachers and caused the death of the husband of one of the two for heartbreak, the boy had announced his intentions on social media and talked frequently about his crazy idea. Just turned eighteen he invested four thousand dollars, saved with odd jobs, in the purchase of two rifles; only the grandmother tried to stop him, just before he left the house and was seriously injured by a shot.
To aggravate an already tragic situation in itself there is the total inexperience of the police forces, as the witnesses say: "There were at least 40 policemen armed to the teeth but they did nothing until it was too late". It is what the father of one of the victims says that he adds: "It’s been at least 90 minutes between the first call to the rescue and the intervention of the tactical team that killed Salvador Ramos, while outside the school the crowd incited the agents to enter, but nobody moved".
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A further madness "justified" by the fact that he expected the keeper with the keys to enter!
America is like this: a boy as young as eighteen can have problems to buy a beer, in some states it takes twenty-one years, but he can safely buy a weapon, so much so that in the USA there are more weapons than cars.
As usual (!) restarts the usual controversy against the arms industry which is a bit like picking on the car industry in the face of countless road accidents; a way of seeing the speck and not the beam! The real problem is cultural and consequently legislative.
America is not the Upper Side of Manhattan or Boston, it is not Beverly Hills or Miami, suggestive sites for cinema or television series but a compound of about 330 million inhabitants, of different ethnicities from which derive huge racial problems, resulting in social discomfort and among younger is increasingly widespread mental, thanks to covid-19.
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Inhabitants scattered mostly in vast industrial districts and even more immense rural areas that have in common the epic of the old Far West, where the masters were the Colt gun and the Winchester rifle: "When a man with a gun meets a man with a gun, he’s a dead man"! Of course, you will say that it is only a film joke but it fully reflects what is the dream vision of American popular culture, not to be confused with the "pop culture", where a certain type of machismo is still prevalent.
According to Texas writer Lawrence Wright, New Yorker’s signature and Pulitzer Prize winner, the cult of arms was created artfully by Republicans; true is that the right has made weapons an element of identity but if it were only for this, In the United States, half the guns in circulation.
That the arms lobby does everything in its power to obtain pro-trade laws is natural and in its own right, the problem is that the laws are made by politicians and in the "democratic game" of alternation, Democrats and Republicans. The laws have always been in favor of the free sale of any weapon.
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For Professor Gregory Alegi, professor of the Department of Political Science of the History of the Americas at the Luiss University of Rome, the problem is all in the extremist reading of the second amendment of the Constitution, which reads: "A well-organized militia is necessary for the security of a free state and therefore the right of citizens to hold and carry weapons cannot be violated". In the vision of the founding fathers, the right to carry weapons at the individual level was equivalent to that of the armed people because the people in arms is the army of the country to defend themselves against the invader. In the current reading, instead, from the Miller judgment of 2008, it has become the extreme and absolute right of the individual to arm himself as he wishes and even against the State.
Call them if you want legal sophistry, but to prevent the sale of weapons to an 18-year-old needs a special law as well as a specific protocol for free movement that provides for a license by examination, accompanied by physical and mental fitness. You don’t have to bother the founding fathers to apply common sense.
The sobs of Obama and Biden in the face of this umpteenth tragedy, are nothing but "crocodile tears!"
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