Consider that children today do not spend a day at school without fear of being killed. From Columbine in 1999 to Uvalde, Texas today – to Sandy Hook in 2012 and Parkland in 2018 – more than 311,000 children have faced school shootings.
This age group is America’s abandoned generation: adults and their elected officials are doing absolutely nothing to address this appalling man-made public safety crisis. No place is safe – schools, churches, parks, supermarkets – in this society, unique in the world, where mass shootings take place every passing day.
In just ten days, in Buffalo and Texas, more than 30 Americans have been killed while shopping or attending school. The shooters are two 18-year-old men, one armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, the other with multiple weapons.
For decades and decades, adults of all political persuasions have pointed to the crumbling mental health system and raised other distracting grievances. But they don’t lift a finger to fix any of these problems.
Nothing has changed since Columbine
The United States has no laws limiting the sale of military-style assault weapons or the number of cartridges that can hold a magazine. No laws requiring background checks on someone who buys a gun from a store or online. No legislation protecting consumers who acquire weapons. [Contrairement aux autres biens de consommation, les armes à feu ne sont pas réglementées ; les vendeurs ne sont par exemple pas tenus d’en expliquer l’utilisation et les risques. Une telle réglementation vise avant tout à limiter les accidents.]
A few years ago, a new generation of Americans launched a movement that is reminiscent of these historic movements q
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