The persistent nightmare of gun-related violence on November 14 once again ignited public opinion after a male student in California, on his 16th birthday, opened fire on his friends. class, causing 2 people killed and 3 others injured before suicide.
The shooting occurred just as the US Senate was debating a bill restricting gun use.
According to police, the perpetrator is an Asian teenager, attending Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, about 65km north of Los Angeles. Subject pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his backpack on his back and aimed at his classmates. Two victims were killed, a 16-year-old female student and a 14-year-old male student. The police are unclear about the motive for this teenager's crime and believe that the subject acts alone. Neighbors described the suspect as a timid, quiet, and apparently psychologically affected person after his father died of heart disease in December 2017.
County Sheriff Alex Villanueva expressed his distress as gun crimes continued to creep into schools. According to him this is a reality that is impacting across the United States.
The United States is the only developed country in the world that has witnessed so many school shootings, with more than 40 in just over a year. Most recently, in May, two young men opened fire on a school on the outskirts of Denver, killing an 18-year-old high school student and eight people injured. Or a year earlier, in Santa Fe, a 17-year-old student opened fire on 20 people at the school, killing 2 adults and 8 students.
For many years, gun violence has been a hot news in the US. But the fact that such behavior crept into school and the perpetrators were young people under the age of 18 was a painful problem. Since 2011, efforts on gun safety have often been stopped in the House of Representatives, under Republican control and now in the Senate.
Vice President Mike Pence on November 14 sent condolences to the families of the victims and pledged that President Donald Trump will do everything to stop gun violence: “Our president and the authorities of he is still determined to end the violence involving gunfire. We will not stop until this situation is stopped and until our schools and our community find safety again. ”
President Donald Trump in his latest speech on this issue also asserted that the White House is taking more measures than any previous administration to prevent gun violence. But clearly, the US government must do more, in order to eliminate this "nightmare".
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