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It is long past time to end the gun madness in America
Thursday, April 22, 2021
We are reeling from the mass shootings that are almost becoming a daily affair. From Atlanta to Indianapolis, the mass killings go on and on.
The US policy of constantly endangering our children is enacted by a bought-and-paid-for Congress on behalf of 10 major gun manufacturers with an $8 billion industry. Most Americans don’t have or want a gun, and 50% of all guns in the US are owned by 3% of Americans, i.e. some 6 million people out of 320 million. That three percent would be just fine if they were subjected to better security checks and a ban on assault weapons. In 2019 (i.e. before the distorting pandemic) there were 413 mass shootings in the US.
Although guns in the hands of people with mental problems is the major cause of these mass shootings, the fact that the police are so quick to pull their guns and kill innocent people at minor traffic stops is also a huge problem for this country. The Black Lives Matter protests now taking place in Minnesota is clear evidence of that. Why do America’s police even have to carry guns?
In England, where police do not carry guns there were 33 gun homicides last year; while the US had 10,258.
Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota) is the founder of the Native American Journalists Association and of Indian Country Today. Contact him at najournalist1@gmail.com.
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