After the shooting drama that happened on Tuesday at a base school in Texas, the debate about stricter wapenwetgeving in the United States was in full swing. “Het blijft en gevoelig onderwerp. Helemaal here in Texas,” says America correspondent Maral Noshad Sharifi in Uvalde, Texas.
Each day at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas was open on Tuesday 19 and two children were shot for an 18-year-old boy. What hoor en zie ever there?
“Rondom de school is really a mediacircus. He zijn kruizen neergezet waar all names op staan van de vermoorde children and leraren. Af en toe proberen Nabestanden and drunken daar bloemen neer te leggen, maar you want to start long all the media worm the het schoolgebouw bijna hebben afgezet. Het is moeilijk om een rustige plek te vinden om te rouwen.”
“The shooting part has a large impact on the community here. Het is a city with 16,000 residents, many people zijn directly or indirectly drunk at the school. Well, when you’re not at school, you know someone through the sports association of the family.”
“Het onderwerp van geprek is natural de wapenwetgeving. Al blijft het en gevoelig onderwerp, want just in Texas is de wapencultuur heel groot. Mensen zijn opgegroeid met wapens en met the idea that wapens nodig zijn om je te verdedigen. A few days ago I spoke to you about the wake-up call that he did on the other half and you should have done so in politics by the house when he was born. ‘Dus we leren om onszelf te verdedign’, zei ze. That’s for the good of the people here, we don’t want to give you a thank you for that.
In Buffalo, New York, twee weken are told nog tien mensen doodschoten by a wit-extremist. Now he is het bloedbad in Texas, the 24th shooting party at a school in that year. How will it be explained in the rest of the country on the basis of its weight?
“Je noticed that mensen nog amper zijn hersteld van de beurtenissen in Buffalo en dat de reactions daardoor more violent zijn. Many Americans have said that they really want to change now. Zeker omdat de wapenverkoop de laatste jaren alleen maar is toegenomen.
Door de coronapandemie voelden people are less sure. He was less mensen op straat en also de politie what less compelling. But the idea that it was dead sea blissful suffering is natural after all.”
Ook President Joe Biden deed an emotionele oproep tot stricter warnings. It is clear that the campaign sounds on the shooting side of the American school. Do you ever know that he’s going to change that now?
“The vraag is vooral of én wanneer de Republikeinen already zijn de wapenwetgeving te change. Tot nu toe will zij het debat daarover vooral ontwijken. ‘We want to make sure that there are no political discussions. We would like to bid for the slachtoffers’, roepen zij.”
Also Ted Cruz, the Republican Senator from Texas, will talk about the drama in the state not in discussing the war. Hij riep vandaag dat de achterdeur van de school openstond, wardoor dit kon geuberen. Scholen én leraren should bother me better, Vindt Cruz. The answer to the wapengeweld is due to the fact that there are no more wapens. In plaats van stricter wapenwetten will the republic invest a lot in the potential signaling of mental gezondheidsproblemen. The Democrats can do this hard om stricter wapenwetgeving, maar het zal moeilijk been.
“The Texans trekked a little bit aan van der stemmen in the rest of the country. For the sake of your personal property. Since mensen die ik spreek, ask for a shooting party in Uvalde, but of the leeftijd voor wapenbezit not omhoog moet. Since most of the time it is 21 days before drinking, we have a semi-automatic switch. Dat vinden de mensen here world te ver gaan.”
Vrijdag vindt uitgerekend in Texas het jaarlijkse plaats van de National Rifle Association, de most powerful Amerikaanse wapenlobby. What is the state of affairs?
“Het is a soort wapenbeurs waarop de allnieuwste wapens been presented. There are always dozens of American flags that come up that are close to the shooting drama in Uvalde. On the other hand, Senator Ted Cruz and the Texan Governor Greg Abbott stayed on the list of speakers at the congress. It’s always clear that the Americans are right about what they’re saying and the Democrats don’t really like it.”