• Shootout in Texas, many victims
  • Usa: the shooting in Dayton, Ohio

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05 August 2019 "Evil attacks of two monsters". Donald Trump speaks to the nation. Live on TV, 48 hours after the massacres in El Paso and Dayton, the US president turns to an America devastated by a bloody weekend . They are hours of pain and controversy. The US mourns 29 dead: "It is time to unite against hatred, and America will win the challenge," says Trump, "racism, intolerance and white suprematism are ideologies that must have no place in America and must to be defeated ". Public opinion is again divided on the excessive number of weapons in circulation in the country: "To pull the trigger have been hatred and mental disability" says the tycoon, acquitting de facto weapons.

The massacres in Texas and Ohio bear the signature, respectively, of Patrick Cruisis and Connor Betts. 21 years the first, 24 the other. Cruisis has been recognized as the author of a poster posted on the web two years ago, in 2017, where he says he hates Hispanics. And a post published twenty minutes before the massacre would be attributed to him: "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas".

"The Internet offers a dangerous path to radical and disturbed minds," says the US president, stressing that the "dangers" of social media "cannot be ignored". And calls for a bipartisan solution, proposing to the Democrats a collaboration to stem the phenomenon of the uncontrolled spread of firearms and mass slaughters in the United States. Improving the work of identifying the "early signs" that potential perpetrators spread on social media is the first step. For this reason, he said, the Ministry of Justice was asked to step up cooperation with the competent federal agencies and social media companies. "We need to stop or substantially reduce these acts, we need a cultural change," he says, adding that he has ordered the justice department to develop legislation that provides for the death penalty for hate crimes and mass slaughter.

And again: a reform of the laws on "mental health", to "stop in advance the most vulnerable people" mentally. These people, the US president said, "must be treated but also isolated if necessary". For this reason, he added, "we must ensure that people at risk have no access to weapons".