The alarm of shootings in America does not stop even on the weekend of Memorial day, the day dedicated to the fallen of all wars but marred by the recent death of the victims of an entirely internal ‘war’: that of the violence of firearms, which causes over 20,000 deaths a year, excluding suicides.
And if in the Texan town of Uvalde 19 of the 21 victims were 10-year-old pupils, in Florida it happens that a boy of the same age is arrested a few days later for threatening a mass shooting through text messages. The little boy, a Cape Coral elementary school student, was handcuffed and taken away. “This is not the time to act like a petty thug, this is not funny. This child has launched a false threat and is now paying the real consequences,” explained Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno. student – he continued – is revolting, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas. It is imperative to make sure our children are safe. We will have law and order in our schools! My team did not hesitate a second … NOT A SINGLE SECOND, to investigate this threat “, he wrote in capital letters on his office’s Facebook account, as if to contrast the timeliness of his action with the sensational delays of the police. in Uvalde, where the killer was in action for an interminable 78 minutes before being shot down. “You won’t be able to shoot our men, if you bring a lethal weapon to this county we will kill you”, his warning to potential massacres. taken on Saturday, as stated on the same Fb account, when the sheriff learned of a message with a threatening text sent by the student, who attends the fifth grade of the Patriot Elementary School.
The school threat analysis team was immediately alerted and began looking into the case. Investigators questioned the suspect and decided there was a probable cause for his arrest.
As if that weren’t enough, there were several shootings with deaths and injuries over the weekend, including one at an outdoor festival in Taft, Oklahoma (one death and 7 hospitalized). And while Memorial Day becomes an opportunity for ‘weapons sales’ (even for children, pink for girls), Joe Biden defines “nonsense to buy a weapon that can fire 300 bullets” and he assures that he will continue to “push” for a squeeze because the second amendment of the constitution on the right to self-defense “is not absolute”. The president reiterated that he had done everything in his power with some executive actions but admitted that he could not “outlaw weapons” or “change background checks” on who buys a weapon. This is up to Congress, and in this regard he has expressed cautious optimism by calling both the Republican leader in the Senate Mitch McConnnell and Senator John Cornyn to whom McConnell has entrusted the task of negotiating a compromise with the Dems “reasonable”. Among the points under discussion is the increase in the minimum age to buy a weapon and federal incentives for states that adopt the ‘red flags laws’: laws that allow a judge to deny weapons to persons reported by families and / or police because they are potentially dangerous to themselves and to others.
Source: Ansa
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