The US, for years, has been suffering from rampant gun violence and related crimes.
The United States, with its army, adores bringing peace and democracy to every nook and corner of the globe but its own house is saddled with bullets and blood.
In a recent incident at a Tennessee school in Nashville, a transgender ex-student shot dead 3 children and 3 adult staffers!
The assailant, who reportedly identifies himself as transgender, was heavily armed with a semi-automatic rifle and 2 handguns.
Gun violence in US Schools
Incidents of mass shootings in educational institutions have become common hearsay in the US nowadays!
Michigan State University Shooting: a 43-year killed 3 students while injuring 5 others in Michigan State University, last month.
The University of Virginia Shooting: 22-year-old student shoots 3 football team members of his University while injuring 2 others in 2017.
The US has recorded 376 school shootings since 1999 with 46 being reported last year!
If this is the condition of schools, just imagine what the situation is like on normal streets, homes or public places! homes, parks, etc.
Shootings in the US
Here is a video from St. Louis of a man casually loading a gun and killing a homeless man on sidewalk. In other countries, it is termed ‘an utter breakdown of law & order’.
According to the Gun Violence Archive’s Real-time U.S.S gun violence data, as of 27 March, 4194 deaths were reported in 2023!
The mass shooting incidents, while sometimes random, have also been related to racial and cultural enmity.
An incident which exposed US gun violence to the global community was the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting.
2017 Las Vegas Shooting
2017 Las Vegas Shooting: In what is known as the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in US history — a 64-year-old man opened fire from his hotel suite on a crowd attending a music festival.
After firing more than 1,000 rounds, the convict killed 60 people while injuring hundreds!
In June 2022, US President Joe Biden signed the first significant gun safety legislation to be voted into law in decades, although the data shows that it has been ineffective!
The US government, never fails to assess crime and the religious freedom of other sovereign nations, in its yearly reports but has constantly failed to control rampant gun violence at home.