US needs proper gun control laws
Gun control is very
necessary in the US. For gun control, Trump must focus on socio-economic
challenges of poor Whites. The Las Vegas massacre has re-ignited a debate in the US about the country’s gun
control laws. The killer responsible
for the worst mass shooting in United States history acted on his own for no
political motive. Fifty-nine people
were shot dead by Stephen Paddock and over 500 injured.
The Republican Party, the party that treats unrestricted gun ownership as
a constitutional right, controls the Congress and the president, Donald Trump,
campaigned against gun control. The US’ love affair with the gun is well known. Even Europe is no stranger to such violent incidents. But the lethality
of such acts in Europe is a fraction of the US’.
US President Donald Trump condemned the largest mass shooting in modern
US history as an “act of pure evil”. But the President did not use the word
“terrorism” and refused to get into a new debate over gun control. “Our unity
cannot be shattered by evil, our bonds cannot be broken by violence,” the
president said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack without giving any
evidence. The FBI clarified that the gunman had “no connection” to international terrorist groups. Motive for the
attack remains a mystery. Sheriff
Joseph Lombardo saying: “I can’t get into the mind of a psychopath at this
point.”
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman said the attack was the work of a “crazed
lunatic full of hate”. Authorities believe Paddock acted alone and he appeared
to have no criminal history but his father was a bank robber who was on the
FBI’s most-wanted list in the 1960s.
More people in the USA have died of gun violence than Islamic terrorism.
A section of Americans is blinded by their paranoia about their right to bear
arms — enshrined in the American constitution — to see the need for some common
sense reforms.
The death toll would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in US
history, eclipsing last year’s massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club. Las Vegas’s casinos, nightclubs and
shopping draw some 3.5 million visitors from around the world each year and the
area was packed with visitors when the shooting broke out shortly after 10 pm.
The rampage was reminiscent of a mass
shooting at a Paris rock concert in November 2015 that killed 89 people, part
of a wave of coordinated attacks by Islamist militants that left 130 dead.
“We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass
shootings every few months,” said former US President Barack Obama. He quoted
himself from an earlier interview, “The United States of America is the one
advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense
gun-safety laws — even in the face of repeated mass killings.”
Thousands of people die every year in gun violence in the United States —according
to the Gun Violence Archive, which tracks gun-related violence and mass
shootings. Gun-control activists are seeking small changes in the existing gun
laws to prevent guns from falling into the hands of those incapable of
exercising some control over their use, such as those with mental illness like
Adam Lanza, who gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators at a Connecticut
elementary school in 2012. They have sought background checks for prospective
buyers and stricter control on the sale of weapons at fairs and exhibition and
a check on military style weapons that can shoot long bursts, causing many
deaths and injuries.
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