I, like millions of people, including those fighting Russians at war in Ukraine, am heartbroken at the wonton carnage that took place at the town of Uvalde, a short distance from the Mexican Border with USA in the State of Texas.
What does the gun dealer think who sold the two assault rifles to an 18 year old who had celebrated his birthday just three days earlier?
How do the extremely right wing politicians who support such an act of terrorism support the act saying: It is the person who killed and not the Gun..
Many civilized countries (by acts like this every week, the week before it was another 18 year old who walked into a supermarket with black shoppers and gunned down 10) have gun ownership but also strict laws and also a culture of respect for the society and others and lives. Switzerland, for example. Texas just banned abortion, saying it is murder of a foetus. But it repeatedly has seen gun violence..Here are some statistics:
Texas Firearm Deaths
- There were more than 4,000 gun-related deaths in Texas in 2020.
- In 2019, 61% of all Texas suicides were by firearm.
- In 2019, nearly 73% of veteran suicides in Texas were by firearm according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- In 2020, 183 women in Texas were killed by a male intimate partner—67% of those murders were by firearm.
- Women in Texas are 24% more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other states.
- In 2019, at least 32 Texan children ages 0-17 died in unintentional shootings.
