Aviva Fried, edited by Yanis Darras 11:53 a.m., May 28, 2022, modified at 11:55 a.m., May 28, 2022
Three days after the massacre in a primary school in Texas which left 22 dead, the NRA, the American pro-arms association, is organizing its congress in Houston.
An event attended by former President Donald Trump.
During his speech, the former president was hostile to potential gun control in the country.
It is a congress under high tension which begins in Houston for the NRA, the National Rifle Association.
Three days after the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas, which killed 21 people, the powerful pro-gun association is organizing its big mass.
"I'm ashamed for you", shout the hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the entrance to the event, under the Texas sun and its 35 degrees.
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"It hurts my heart"
"I thought we would have done something by now," said Bamby Brown, a protester who came to remember Kimberley, a little girl killed four years ago in another Texas school shooting four years ago. year.
"It hurts my heart, it hurts my soul that children continue to die," she shouts outside the convention center.
The police contain the demonstrators, to avoid any confrontation between the two camps.
And if each member of the NRA is booed on leaving the congress, inside, the atmosphere is quite different.
For the occasion, the former President of the United States Donald Trump, made his show on stage.
A political debate
If the 45th American president paid tribute to the children killed during the massacre, the latter multiplied throughout his intervention the attacks against the Democratic camp and more particularly, against the current president of the country, Joe Biden.
"It seems that the Bush administration plans to hand over the responsibility for your second amendment to UN bureaucrats," he said on stage, provoking the anger of the spectators.
Proof of this is that the subject of firearms, already highly politicized, is increasingly becoming an insurmountable divide between Democrats and Republicans.