It is absolutely horrifying – the regularity with which we hear about mass shootings in the United States. Some disturbed young person, someone radicalised by a particular ideology, a violent racist, sometimes a misogynist… the reasons for these men going on killing sprees are different. What is common is that they all involved guns. And yet there are those who try to explain these away as the result of the mental health epidemic. While that may well be true, the sickening regularity with which mass shootings take place in the USA is because of the terrifying ease of acquiring guns; the ubiquitous presence of deadly weapons.
In Uvalde Texas, an 18-year-old opened fire in an elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers. About 40 minutes after the shooter, identified as Salvador Ramos opened fire, he was killed by police, but not before many families were permanently ravaged by the senseless violence.
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