—Five days after the Uvalde shooting: President Joe Biden and his wife commemorate the 21 dead who died in the elementary school.
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“Now the Oblivion” and “I have enough” we will 27. May:
life without guns
I wonder why people can’t understand that children can’t be shot without guns.
Edgar Frankincense, München
no more to help
Hubert Wetzel struggles for many lines to analyze the relationship between the Americans and weapons more precisely. A reference to a picture would have sufficed.
The governor of Texas comfortingly hugs a father who is crying for his daughter. At the same time, we know that this same governor will warmly greet the representatives of the NRA (National Rifle Association) in Houston a day later.
It doesn’t take more to see how perverted this is. These people cannot be helped anymore. The next massacre will not be long in coming.
Marcus Schlueter, Because in Schönbuch
“Freedom” without responsibility
Indeed, the way sections of the public influenced by the gun lobby NRA in the United States deal with gun violence is cynical, singularly sad, and also hypocritical.
When Republican politicians and the gun lobby in particular, in familiar agreement with the pseudo-argument that gun ownership is freedom, shirk responsibility and underpin this misanthropic attitude with prayers, this shows once again how morally degenerate parts of the political class and the bosses of the gun industry are are in the US. When prayers are spoken from this side, it can only be described as blasphemy.
It is high time that those responsible in America support US President Joe Biden in his fight against easy killing. But Republicans, who unashamedly equate gun ownership with liberty, seem to lack the responsibilities that liberty brings and respect for human life.
Manfred Kirsch, Neuwied
Confused and sick
The author speaks from my heart. However, I have a completely different opinion on one point: Drug deaths and victims of assassination attempts are not comparable. Of course, both are highly unfortunate and those responsible should fight against them. But the use of drugs is (hopefully) the sole decision of the person concerned without immediate danger to third parties. It’s different with gunmen.
Politicians would have to fight against both phenomena. Withholding assault rifles from the confused and sick would be easy, I think, if half the population of the US weren’t “confused”. Wilfried Lang, Lage
Almost everyday
Massacre in Texas. I just heard from the news about a massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that left more than 20 dead. As a humanist, I asked myself why this terrible news from the USA hardly affects me? Presumably because such things from over there have almost become everyday reports?
Hans Gamliel, Rorschach/Switzerland
Little hope of change
I think it’s difficult for us Europeans to understand Americans’ love of guns. Things are already looking very different in neighboring Canada. This was shown very well at the time by the 2002 documentary entitled “Bowling for Columbine”, which the famous American documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore recorded. He also visited the home of Charlton Heston, a supporter of the NRA. I have little hope that anything will change in the short or medium term. The killing will just keep going.
Rolf Werner, Stolberg
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