“They simply went to the wrong place, opened the wrong door, and made an unintentional mistake that could have had fatal consequences.” The “New York Times” recently made the above comment in response to the recent multiple shooting incidents in the US. Inadvertent mistakes such as opening the wrong door, taking the wrong road, getting into the wrong car, etc., can lead to fatal disasters in America. “USA Today” reported that decades of “misplaced” shootings and murders have brought tragic consequences for America.
Everyone is in danger, everyone is protecting themselves, everyone is feeling more vulnerable. Today, American citizens live in an atmosphere of deep fear. This fear has a wide connection with the rising crime rate in the US in recent years. Racism was an important factor in these cases. Many Americans deeply prejudiced by racial prejudice have the mistaken idea that “non-white groups are dangerous” and thus shoot minorities without being threatened. Statistics show that African-Americans aged 15 to 34 have the highest proportion of victims of gunshot accidents, and African-Americans are 10 times more likely than whites to be killed by a gun.
In recent years, problems such as dividing public opinion in American society, the growing gap between rich and poor, and racism have led to intense conflicts in the country and a growing sense of insecurity. Surveys show that in the early 1970s about half of Americans believed that most Americans were trustworthy. However, by 2020 this number had dropped to less than a third. Amid fear and anxiety, more and more Americans are choosing to buy guns for self-protection. When everyone reluctantly chooses to “own a gun,” American society will inevitably fall into a vicious cycle of “insecurity—buying guns—more insecurity.” Gun groups, led by the US National Rifle Association, have used the politics of money to promote the creation of a more relaxed gun-owning environment on the one hand, and have done everything possible to stall the process of gun control on the other. Is.
At the annual meeting of the US National Rifle Association held a few days ago, several politicians took a stand for “gun ownership”. Former President Trump also “proudly” declared that he was the president who most supported “gun ownership”. The issue of gun control, motivated by votes and money, has long become a tool for bipartisan rivalry, and gun violence has become a “dead knot” in American society. In the long run, it will be difficult to resolve deep-rooted social contradictions in America without institutional reform, and guns will make these problems more “inflammable.” It is hard to imagine that the world’s only superpower, which prides itself on being a “beacon of human rights”, becomes a “shooting” incident before it can “speak”. Who will defend the human rights of those Americans who were shot before they could speak?
(Credits-China Media Group, Beijing)
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