"Never Again": anti-arms movement in the United States

I'm still trying to find something positive in the negative about the Parkland High School killings, the positive thing is that young people may finally be able to finally reduce the number of psychologically unstable people who hold weapons and who are bombs delay.

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A week after the killings in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people in a high school, tongues become loose among the students who survived. "Never Again" is the name of the movement they created a few days after the killing. The goal is to denounce the links between American political power and the pro-arms lobby.

After the Parkland massacre, students expressed their anger. Then, the anger gave way to a real movement, "Never Again". The goal is to strengthen the control of the psychiatric and legal history of gun buyers.

To make their demands heard, the students organized a demonstration that will take place in the United States on March 24th. They called it "A march for our lives".

Americans film themselves throwing their weapons

After the shooting last week, some Americans have decided to throw their weapons spontaneously, which is new as a reaction after a shootout given that Americans are strong attached to their guns. This is the case of a woman who filmed herself destroying her pistol. Many Internet users applauded his gesture.

The video has become viral on social networks. In her Connecticut garage, Amanda Meyer filmed sawing the barrel of her gun. This teacher, who had previously defended the right to carry a weapon, changed her mind after the killings at Stoneman Douglas High School.

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Faced with the lack of reaction from the White House and elected officials, it is the students who take things in hand following the killing in the Florida high school. With already a march scheduled on March 24th. It was the students who survived the tragedy who made the announcement on Sunday.

"The March For Our Lives" will be held in Washington, DC, but other markets will also take place at the same time in other major communities across the country. The goal is to call for a comprehensive and effective law proposal that is immediately presented to Congress to address the widespread gun violence problems in the country.

A march during which the American youth intends to denounce elected officials who have links with the NRA, the powerful pro-arms lobby in the United States, which has funded part of the campaign of Donald Trump as recalled this weekend a survivor of the tragedy.

Another meeting is planned before, in Tallahassee, the capital of the State of Florida. About 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will travel to the state capital this Wednesday to lobby Florida officials to prevent people with mental disorders from buying weapons. Which was the case of Nikolas Cruz, the killer.

These students wish more generally a revision of the legislation in force in Florida.

Policy

The tragedy of Parkland is already the 18th of the year, but it caused a particular emotion, a series of reactions. The rallies follow one another everywhere in the country, as for example in front of the White House on Monday, or in front of the Parliament of Florida this Wednesday.

In the state where the tragedy took place, lawmakers must also debate the increasingly thorny subject of gun control. While many believe that these are part of the culture, even the American identity, the latest polls show that their supporters are no longer necessarily majority, more control is claimed by the people.

And in this context, Donald Trump is forced to get involved, with a major test scheduled for Wednesday: the president, having received the support of the arms lobby, must participate in a listening session with students and teachers of high school bruised Parkland.

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Arm the campuses

The debate over arms control is regularly revived after deadly shootings, but the US Congress routinely fails to legislate.
Resistance to arms control is strongly rooted in Republicans but it is also present in the Democratic camp, admitted Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, assuring that it was time for Congress to move and do what the country asks: ignore the NRA and make the right decision.

But Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich has questioned the real will of parliamentarians to engage in substantive reform, suggesting specific changes such as background checks on buyers.

But for conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, shooting is not the fault of the NRA, it's the fault of the people who do that and our inability to stop them.

Schools are no-go zones and anyone who wants to shoot at a school knows he will be the only one to be armed. According to him, the only way to avoid such shootings is to allow the use of a concealed weapon on campus, as is already the case in several US states.

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