Recent Shooting Massacres in the USA

[DavidS]

As you all probably know by now, there has been 2 recent mass shootings in the USA this month.

The first one was in Buffalo New York, where an 18 year old male, with a hunting rifle and shotgun with him, went to a supermarket in a black neighborhood and proceeded to murder 10 people and seriously injure 3 more.

He did this while yelling racial slurs at the black people. It was reported that at one point, he aimed his gun at a white person behind a checkout counter but apologized and did not shoot.

This young man was a coward because he had no intentions of putting his own life at risk while indiscriminately gunning down random unarmed black people just innocently doing their grocery shopping. He had bullet-proof body armor, and a military helmet (to also shield him from gunfire to his head). He was not stopped when the supermarket security guard shot at him to stop his murderous rampage, and that security guard was in turn shot at and killed by the shooter. The security guard did not have body armor to protect him.

About 6 minutes later, this evil murderer had exited the supermarket, where police officers were able to talk him into dropping his gun (after he apparently aimed it at his neck). After his arrest, the suspect made disturbing statements regarding his motive and state of mind.

The other shooting was the more recent one in Texas only a few days ago.
There another 18 year old boy who just turned 18 that same day, went to a gun store and LEGALLY purchased an AR-15 automatic rifle (designed for military use, not for hunting), without having any background checks or pass any mental illness test, or get any kind of license, or even be forced to wait for a certain amount of days (as per some other states gun purchase laws).

After this purchase, he went back home and put on body armor (just like the Buffalo shooter did). For some unknown reason he shot his Grandmother (I'm guessing probably because she was trying to stop him from leaving the house with a machine gun). Then he proceed to drive to an elementary school and shoot dead 19 young school children and 2 teachers. Just like the first shooter mentioned, this shooter was also shot at by someone trying to stop him, but because of the body armor they did not even wound him. After over an hour, police eventually stormed into the room he was barricaded in, and had a deadly shootout with him, killing him in the process.

These 2 events are "only" 2 mass shootings out of many hundreds that occur every year in the USA. Last year, there were 693 mass shootings in the USA. This number includes school shootings, supermarket shootings, cinemas, etc.

No other country has this problem with people doing these mass shootings so frequently. This is a USA problem. The reason for this? Well, it's because our lawmakers (mainly the republicans) refuse to pass gun control legislation due to their priority to support the gun lobby groups (like the NRA), and also to appease certain sections of the community that vote for them. Not to mention the millions in bribery money (also known as campaign contributions) that these gun lobby groups shower the republicans with.

The overwhelming majority of US citizens want these gun control laws to be passed, but nothing ever gets done thanks to these repulsive republican politicians. They have blood on their hands. If that 18 year old kid was forced to wait 21 days to receive his AR-15 rifle for example, he could not have done this massacre. If he was forced to prove why he needed to purchase a military AR-15 machine gun for example, he could not have done this massacre. If he was forced to pass a mental health check (at his own cost) before being allowed to purchase any firearm, he could not have done this massacre. So many ways that this could have been avoided if our lawmakers had passed these kinds of simple gun control laws already. But instead, 19 children aged between 7-10 years old and 2 of their teachers are now dead. Some of the children could not be identified by sight due to the violent way they were murdered. Authorities had to ask for DNA samples from some of the parents so their child could be identified properly. My God...what did this 18 year old killer do these children to make them unrecognizable from being identified?

I am ashamed to live in a country where half of our politicians (the republicans) prioritizes their bribes and positions of power over the lives of our children. Shame on them and may God judge them for their evil ways.