Gérard Araud – Why America Loves Guns So Much

EAnother massacre of children in an American school, always committed in the same way: the assassin, more or less unbalanced, heavily armed, methodically proceeds with his crime before being killed by the police. It’s number 288^e incident of this kind in the United States for the first five months of 2022. 288! Almost two a day. Fortunately, not all end with casualties, but today death by gunshot has become the leading cause of death among American children. All schools do regular exercises to teach students how to react in the event of such an attack.

The scenario that follows such a tragedy is now well established: the Democrats, supported by the relatives of victims, are calling for a regulation of arms sales to put…