A culture of death

Lise Ravary

Friday, 16 February 2018 05:00

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Friday, 16 February 2018 05:00

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The possession of firearms is not as widespread in the United States than one might think. Only 3 % of the population owns half of the 265 million weapons in circulation, according to a survey of Harvard college and Northeastern. These supergun owners, collectors or manic, have between 17 and 140.

According to the Small Arms Survey in switzerland, there would nonetheless have 88 guns per 100 residents in the United States. Yemen comes second, with 54.8 guns per 100 residents. And Switzerland is third, with to 45.7 guns per 100 residents.

The Swiss revere the firearms almost as much as the Americans.

And yet, the last killing ground in Switzerland took place in 2001 in the parliament of the canton of Zug, when Friedrich Leibacher, angry against the government, has killed 14 people.

And the previous ? In 1912, in Romanshorn.

A culture

It takes more than millions of firearms to create situations which are as aberrant as those that prevail in the United States. They must be combined with a culture of death, a glorification of violence, fueled by the arrogance of the powerful, to become as lethal.

Trump does it not say in the campaign that he could take down someone on 5th Avenue without losing votes ?

Hollywood is violent. Video games are violent. The rappers are violent. The police are violent. Street youth also, and they pay the price.

The first decree signed by the president, Trump has allowed 75,000 people suffering from mental illness to purchase weapons.

Americans don aboliront never the second amendment, but along the way, have they forgotten that this section of the Constitution serves to protect the people of the dictatorship and not to allow him to draw at the slightest misunderstanding ?