29 people were shot in El Paso and Dayton by two men. An end to the violence in sight, because the United States will hold on to the tabs on weapons laws and the President is sowing more hatred, says Carla Bleiker.
El Paso, Texas: At Least 20 Dead. Dayton, Ohio: At Least 9 Dead. One of the most violent weekends in recent US history, died in around 14 hours 29 people in two shootings. Many of the injured are still treated in hospitals. Together with the three people who were shot last Sunday at a Food Festival in Gilroy, California, are the 32 victims of gun violence in just one week.
US President, Donald Trump announced via Twitter that his “thoughts and prayers” were with the Victims and their families. To send the Affected “thoughts and prayers” the reflex reaction of politicians is swept after each new mass shooting in the US again is now. It’s supposed to be a nice gesture, but it does help you very little.
The President should do instead, maybe think about the fact that the police found in El Paso, a Manifesto online, which probably comes from the 21-year-old alleged offender. In it, the author writes of his hatred for immigrants of the soul: He was against the “Hispanic Invasion of Texas”.
Washington Correspondent Carla Bleiker
The President, Trump has referred to the immigration of asylum seekers from Central America as an “Invasion”. He makes no secret of the fact that he does not want to have migrants in the United States. Even members of Congress with a migrant background who are born in the United States or American citizenship have, would like to send Trump the loved one back to “where they came from”.
Statements like these from the first man in the state to make hatred and xenophobia socially acceptable. When the violence erupts from it, such as in El Paso your way, can’t have the President of any responsibility.
United States need stricter gun laws
The thoughts and prayers, the politicians dig now, according to the acts of El Paso and Dayton, you are also a way to avoid political Action. What the USA really need are stricter gun laws. The shooter from Dayton went out with a gun, and additional cartridge magazines, the trade fairs in the USA, for example, at “gun shows”, the so-called Weapons easily available. The police would not have been in less than a Minute after the start of the shooting, would have been able to kill the perpetrators of hundreds of people.
After each of these actions Calls for the introduction of an arms licence, a universal Background Checks and other strict laws, according to the. This was the case in 2012, after 20 children were shot dead at the age of 6 and 7 years, as well as six adults in the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. It was not the case, after a shooter in Las Vegas almost two years ago killed 58 people at a concert. And it was the case, after a gunman shot and killed on Valentine’s day 2018 at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, 17 students and teachers. Young people from Parkland called for a protest movement to life, in their “March for Our Lives” in Washington, D.C., tens of thousands of people took part.
But representatives of the gun lobby have too much Power and too much money, as these votes could prevail. The Republican Governor of Texas, spoke after the shooting of El Paso of weapons laws, but said the perpetrators may have been mentally ill (for which there is no evidence) and that there is a need for a better System for the care and identification of mental diseases.
But people with mental health problems there are in other countries. And nowhere else are so many men, women and children are shot in the United States. So politicians long not, finally, from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other powerful weapons lobbyists renounce and stricter laws to introduce, will die in the USA every day more people by force of arms.