The victims were buried one by one during the week in the town where the primary school attack took place in Texas, where 19 students and 2 teachers lost their lives.
President Joe Biden, who visited the town at the weekend and promised the public to take action against gun violence, started the week with statements on this subject.
“Everything got so bad that everybody started to make more sense,” Biden said. Biden, referring to the Republicans who support individual armament with these words, said that in the last incident, non-partisan support could be given to tightening the restrictions on the type of assault-type weapons used by the aggressor.
Biden said, “There is no point in being able to buy a gun that can fire 300 rounds,” and reminding that he signed some presidential decrees on gun control, Biden said, “I will talk to Congress about guns. I promise you.”
According to the White House, the President does not support a ban on all weapons but is working on potential steps to prevent gun violence.
The governor of the state where the attack took place, Republican Greg Abbott, is of the opinion that regulations on arms sales are not the solution.
What happened in the USA moved Canada as well.
“We only need to look south of the border to know that if we don’t act decisively and quickly, the situation will only get worse and it will be harder to resist,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who started the week by announcing that they were drafting a law that would ban the purchase and sale of individual guns nationwide.
The deadliest school shooting in the last 10 years in America caused the eyes to be turned to gun shops.
“This time, the address of armed violence in America was the state of Texas. The attack, which cost the lives of 19 students and 2 teachers, rekindled the debate on individual armament in the bleeding half of the country. After the attack, which left tearful families behind, arms sales in the country are under scrutiny once again.”
The loss of so many lives did not stop the sales in the gun shops.
Most of those who visited these stores to have individual guns, aside from sharing their opinions, avoided the camera as if they were avoiding the camera, while some stated that they bought guns for their personal safety.
Nathan Sears said, “Do I need to own a gun? No. Do I feel safer when I have one? Yes. Gun violence is an important issue that must be considered. But everyone in the working class in America deserves the right to defend themselves.”
Gun sales have become so synonymous with America that tourist guides include gun shops in their itinerary.
Tourist guide Sebastian said, “I bring tourists here who want to see a gun shop and learn a little more about American gun culture. / They’re interested in seeing this place because it’s not very common where they come from, in Europe. To them, it’s something unusual and more ‘American’. “But gun violence is a very sad situation. I think it’s something we absolutely need to work on as a society. This problem is not easy to solve because there are two very different sides with very different opposing views. But something must definitely be done because what we have been through in the last few years is absolutely unacceptable.” .
Republicans say citizens’ right to own guns is protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
Democrats accuse Republicans of being prisoners of the gun industry and the National Arms Association (NRA), the nation’s largest gun lobby.
The 100-seat Senate is split 50 to 50 between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats must have the support of at least 10 Republicans to reach the 60 vote cap required to pass the bill.
There are 120 guns for every 100 people in America. However, this rate is 0.2 in some countries such as South Korea and Japan.
Americans are estimated to have 393 million of the world’s 857 million civilian guns. This means 46 percent of the total number of civilian weapons.
The person who wants to buy a gun fills out a form and a background check is done on the national database. If the buyer has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor with sentences exceeding two years, or has been declared “mentally defective” by the court, they cannot pass a background check.
The forms ask them to write identification and address information, but the social security number is listed as “optional”.
Have you ever been convicted of a crime? Do you use or are addicted to any depressant, stimulant, narcotic or other controlled substance? Have you ever been to a mental hospital? such questions are asked.
The necessary scans and inquiries only take a few minutes. In other words, it is easy to buy guns in America, but this is exactly why 4 out of every 100 thousand people in the country die as a result of gun violence. This rate is 18 times that of other developed countries.
The Texas shooting is the second largest school attack after the 2012 attack on Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, which killed 28, but is just one of many incidents of gun violence.
It is not known whether this attack will be the last straw, but the common wish of the Americans against individual armament is to make a legal regulation before the news of a new attack comes.