Negligence such as a basketball rolling into someone's yard or going through the wrong door while delivering a delivery can happen to everyone, but in the gun-riddled United States, a small oversight can lead to death. Recently, there have been many shootings in the United States caused by "going to the wrong door".
In the past ten days, there have been many shooting incidents in the United States caused by misunderstandings caused by negligence, resulting in many casualties.
On the evening of the 13th, in Kansas City, Missouri, a 16-year-old African-American teenager named Yar knocked on the wrong door when he went to a friend's house to pick up his brother, and was seriously injured by the white homeowner. The incident sparked anti-racism protests.
Protesters (adult population): Justice for Ralph Yar.
On the evening of the 15th, in the small city of Hebron in upstate New York, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillies took a car to find a friend, strayed into the vicinity of another person's residence, and was shot and died after being shot by the owner. The gunman appeared in court on the 19th and was charged with second-degree murder.
Kaylin Gillies' father: The gunman sat in his porch and shot at a car where the people in the car posed no threat to him, which made me angry.
On the 18th, in Elgin, Texas, USA, two cheerleaders were shot because they got into the wrong car, and one was seriously injured.
Also on the 18th, a 6-year-old girl in Gaston County, North Carolina, Kimsley, and her parents were shot and injured. The cause of the incident was simply that a group of children with basketballs accidentally rolled into the yard of the gunman's house, and the gunman yelled at the children who picked up the ball. Kinsli and her family happened to pass by to negotiate and were shot and injured by the gunman.
Victim Kingsley S. White: Why did you shoot me and my dad?
Gun violence intensifies, reflecting the "group anxiety" of American society
Since the beginning of this month, there have been a number of shootings in the United States caused by "ordinary misunderstandings". Analysts pointed out that this reflects the tearing of American society, frequent violent incidents and people's distrust of each other, which has plunged people into "group anxiety" about security issues. Gun violence is increasingly becoming the "everyday" of American life.
According to a survey report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation in the United States, nearly 1/5 of American adults said they had lost their families due to gun violence, and the vast majority said that they sometimes worried that they or their families would become victims of gun violence, while nearly 1/4 of parents of minors were worried about this almost every day. Gun violence has now surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of death for minors in the United States, the report said.
As gun violence is rampant, many pro-gun groups continue to preach the so-called "Stand Ground Law," in which lethal force can be used against others in self-defense if there are reasonable grounds to believe they are threatened. This expands the right to self-defense under the U.S. Constitution, increasing shootings due to "misunderstandings."
U.S. Attorney Darren Cohen: It's horrible, it's so sad, and I hate seeing this kind of thing, guns everywhere. You can't shoot someone just because you don't like them, or just because you don't think you will like them, and in these cases, none of them are self-defense.
The frequency of shootings makes Americans' sense of security extremely fragile. CNN website reported on the 18th that as gun violence reaches record levels in the United States, a potential trauma is accumulating in a wider range of people, and American society will fall into a group anxiety about security, and "shooting" has become their way to deal with this anxiety.
Jim Clement, former FBI employee: When people face anxiety, they often go to extremes. This is true regardless of race, economic and social background, suggesting that there is a kind of group anxiety, group post-traumatic stress in American society. This is the cumulative effect of the bad things that have happened over the past few years, and they have frightened and exposed the American people to great anxiety and stress, and they are very vulnerable to violence.
The American "Atlantic" monthly commented that one shooting after another has put Americans at risk and weakened confidence in the US political system, and it is precisely because of the shortcomings of the US system that mass shootings cannot be solved by the United States.
According to the "USA Today" website reported on the 22nd, American politicians are indifferent to the frequent shootings and are unwilling to make changes through gun legislation, even if the American people are dying. As this cartoon on the American Political Comics website satirizes - in the cartoon, a child asks: "There are shootings in schools, movie theaters, grocery stores, etc. in my life, where can I hide and pretend that nothing happened?" An adult replied, "Congress." ”