And until the next massacre . It is possible to start this editorial like this, with the final corollary. Because there have been so many mass shootings in the United States in recent years after which nothing has changed that is expected to happen exactly the same. Unfortunately. The bloodiest weekend of the year in the country has resulted in at least 29 deaths in two attacks recorded in El Paso (Texas) and Dyton (Ohio) . And the high number of victims causes chills and a logical worldwide shock. But the reality is that only so far in 2019 in the US there have already been 251 mass shootings - that is, with at least four deaths - and every year 19,000 people die from firearms . They are very difficult figures to digest and that instinctively would make us think of a nation at war or a failed state of the so-called third world; certainly not the first democracy on the planet.

It is more than obvious that the United States has a serious problem of insecurity and that it registers levels of violence that would not be accepted by the citizens of any other developed country in the West - it is enough to imagine what would happen in Europe in such a scenario. But his political class is determined not to change anything, among other things by the force of lobbies as powerful as arms . In the final stretch of his term, Obama tried in vain to approve some timid controls on the acquisition and possession of weapons, a right enshrined in the Second Amendment of the US Constitution . But his efforts were face down against the frontal rejection of the parliamentary majority. And Trump's arrival at the White House has only further strengthened the positions of those who defend that there are no obstacles to the personal decision to arm themselves to the teeth, no matter how many killings this nonsense produces.

Investigators believe that behind the Texas shooting there is a clear crime of racial hatred . Apparently, the arrested attacker, a white supremacist, sought to end the life of as many Hispanics as possible. The dramatic reality is that in the US, on alert as the rest of the world for jihadism, concerns about the terrorism of fanaticized groups or individuals with an extreme right-wing ideology have skyrocketed . And the latter is especially disturbing because the strong social polarization in the country is only getting bigger and the radical and hateful speeches so frequent in politics contribute to extreme and almost irrespirable tension.

Today, finally, it is again a good day to regret that a formation like Vox raises demagogically and irresponsibly in our country measures such as the legalization of weapons for personal defense . We do not want to import the worst of a country like the United States, we already see how it goes.

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