Gunshots frequently rang out in the school US media: "American children are let down again"

China News Network, March 3 -- Comprehensive foreign media reports, "Why is this still happening? Why are our children still dying? We need to take immediate action to solve the problem. An angry mother uttered this question after the mass school shooting in Tennessee.

A total of six people fell under the guns of the killers in this shooting, including three 6-year-old students. The calm on campus was once again broken by the sound of gunfire, and the unstoppable shooting tragedy revealed only the tip of the iceberg of the American school shooting problem.

"Why are tragedies repeating?"

According to "USA Today", on the 27th local time, at the press conference on the Nashville shooting held by the local police, an angry mother walked to the microphone and asked the media present, "Are you not tired of reporting this content?" Why is this still happening? Why are our children still dying? We need to take immediate action to solve the problem. ”

On March 2023, 3, a shooting occurred at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and the picture shows local police officers at the scene.

The 47-year-old mother, Ashbey Beasley, is from Highland Park, Illinois. "Last summer, my son and I were shot there by a mass shooting," she said. At the time of the Nashville school shooting, she was taking her son nearby to visit her family.

According to the report, the Billies mother and son experienced the "Independence Day" shooting on July 2022, 7, when gunmen shot from the roof to strafe the crowd watching the Independence Day parade, killing seven people and injuring dozens.

Bilis said her son, who was only 6 years old after witnessing the shooting, was still traumatized by witnessing the horrors.

To reduce the pain, Bilis has been trying to reach out to more than 130 members of Congress over the past few months to try to persuade them to support the gun control bill.

Billis said she was "intolerable" about gun violence and hoped authorities would address it. "I think an angry mother should stand up and speak up, I have to say something."

Former U.S. President Barack Obama also retweeted Billys' video on social media Twitter, writing, "We are failing our children." ”

Nearly 35,<> students have experienced gun violence in schools

In recent years, gun violence in the United States has intensified, spreading to schools, and has gradually become the "number one killer" of American teenagers.

According to the latest statistics from the Washington Post, from the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999 to the present, there have been 376 shootings on campuses across the United States, and a total of 34,8 students have experienced gun violence on campus.

Data map: On September 2015, 9, Washington, USA, a woman wiped her tears at a rally, her arm tattooed "Be friendly to each other, this is the most important thing" to pay tribute to the victims of the shooting at Sandy Huco Elementary School in Connecticut, USA.

According to reports, there have been 13 school shootings in the United States this year, a total of 6 children have been killed, 4 adults have been killed, and the Nashville shooting is the deadliest school shooting so far this year.

According to the US "Gun Violence Archive" website, as of the 27th, the number of deaths due to gun violence has reached 9898,400, including nearly <> children and adolescents.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics' technical report, "School shootings are a new phenomenon in the past half-century, and the United States has the highest rate of school shootings in the world." ”

Research from the University of Michigan shows that 75% of American teenagers believe that shootings have become their main source of stress.

"American children are once again let down"

Although the United States is trying to break the vicious circle of gun violence, the political differences between politicians of both parties and the tearing of American society on the gun issue make the problem an unsolvable problem.

Whenever a shooting tragedy occurs, politicians play out almost the same playbook: Democrats call for stronger gun control, while Republicans blame people rather than guns. After some verbal attacks, policies and programs did not see any promotion, and new shootings continued to occur...

Infographic: People place signs on gun violence memorial facilities to support gun control during the March for Our Lives rally in front of the Washington Monument on June 2022, 6.

On June 2022, 6, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned half-century-old gun control legislation in New York and six other states, allowing residents of these states to carry concealed firearms, a landmark setback in the field of gun control in the United States.

According to the "Small Arms Survey Project" study of the Higher Institute of International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States has at least 3 million guns, equivalent to about 93 guns per 120 people.

CNN (CNN) commented on the 28th in an article "American children are let down again", pointing out that American society is becoming more polarized and lacks partisan consensus on the major issue of gun control. The current political paralysis in the United States means that there will be children who go to school as usual, but one day they will never be able to return home.

A few days ago, more than a dozen educational associations in the United States published a letter in USA Today shouting to the US official, "We hope that you will no longer be just a brief anger, no more empty promises, no more excuses." Gun violence has evolved into a public crisis in the United States, and we need meaningful action. ”