The United States Constitution permits any citizen to arm himself for his own defense and his property. Too often that right is turned against the innocent, in the case of Texas again against children.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows any citizen of the Republic to carry weapons to protect themselves and their property for more than two centuries. The problem is when this apparent freedom gives unbalanced people access to semi-automatic or assault rifles to cause carnage in schools or colleges. In the United States, there are 298 million legal weapons in the hands of their citizens.
Unfortunately, it is officially considered the first mass murder in an education center in the United States. The balance was settled with 17 dead and 30 injured. On August 1, 1966, college student Charles Whitman, trained as an Army sniper, began firing from the clock tower in the center of the college campus. 17 people died. The day before the massacre, Whitman had bought supplies to carry out the murder and, it was later discovered, had killed his mother and wife. The gunman fired until he was killed by a police officer.
On April 20, 1999, two students with neo-Nazi ideology entered the Columbine Institute in Colorado. Eric Harris (17) and Dylan Klebold (18), armed with an assault rifle, two shotguns and a revolver, killed 13 people and injured 23. When cornered, they committed suicide. The massacre prompted filmmaker Michael Moore to make the Oscar-winning documentary “Bowling for Columbine.” Hate and contempt for their peers were the main cause that led them to plan the massacre, according to documents released by police in 2006.
Seung-Hui Cho, 23, broke into Virginia State University and carried out the largest school massacre in the United States. The first attack, which killed two people, took place at 7 a.m. local time. The killer then moved to another university building, where he killed another 30 people. According to investigations, he acted in revenge for the bullying he suffered as a young man. He previously expressed the need to “repeat Columbine” and insisted on his intentions a year earlier. Still, he entered the campus armed with two pistols he had legally purchased. He liked to photograph himself with both pistols in each hand. After killing 32 people, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Adam Lanza, 20, wanted to join the US armed forces, but his mother, whom he killed before killing six other adults and 20 children, convinced him to give up his military calling. Lanza went through the classrooms of the Sandy Hook daycare center in the state, shooting as many children as he encountered, all between the ages of six and seven. He executed a teacher after she hid her students in a classroom. Barack Obama’s then vice president, Joe Biden, was tasked with controlling gun sales. Fearing a ban, sales of the AR15 semi-automatic rifle used by the Sandy Hook killer multiplied. Biden, now in the White House and ten years later, assures that there will be an end to the carnage caused by the freedom of arms protected by the Second Amendment.
Source: La Verdad
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