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Gun crimes, malignant tumour of American society

Date: 02/10/2023 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Gun-related crimes are growing more rampant in the US, throwing people into uneasiness and horror.

On May 27, three people were killed and five others wounded by a shooting in a small town in New Mexico. The following day, a criminal randomly fired at people at an amusement quarter in Texas to injure several of them at the end of a fight.

Most recently, an armed man fired at a house in Chico, California, killing a teenage girl and wounding several others.

These are the tip of the iceberg compared with the full picture of gun crimes in the US, which has gained notoriety as the kingdom of gun crimes.

The US is the only country in the world where private gun ownership is legally allowed.

Once, a foreign newspaper carried an article, which said that "We want to ask why Americans keep going gun crimes and gun culture which bring death to lots of innocent people every year and when they could reduce the number of deaths," grabbing public limelight.

But there is no answer to this question in the US. Because the US administration, congress and judicial bodies help munitions businesses make huge profits by legalizing the ownership of firearms and munitions businesses in turn support politicians and judicial officers with huge funds they collected by selling lethal weapons.

Such being the situation, guns are openly sold as ordinary goods at shops in the US without any control and ads are posted on the streets to show which shop sells what kinds of weapons. So, everyone can easily buy weapons.

At present, the firearms possessed by the US population are 120.5 pieces per 100.

Today, gun crimes that occur ceaselessly in the US grow ever more serious due to American-style culture of violence rampant in society.

In actuality, computer game makers in the US are selling a lot of violent games and film makers, obsessed with money-making, are competitively producing violent and horror movies. Eighty percent of TV entertainment programmes contain bloody murders and daily TV programmes show scenes of violence 8-12 times an hour on average.

Such a culture of violence has a great negative effect on the intellectual growth of young people, pushing them to the road of gun crimes from childhood.

This year alone, a six-year-old schoolboy shot and fatally wounded a girl teacher after a quarrel at a primary school and a boy student fired several bullets with a pistol, seriously injuring two members of the teaching staff at a high school in Denver, Colorado.

According to an opinion poll jointly conducted by the US media over the ceaseless gun crimes at schools, about 40 percent of Americans said that schools are not safe due to gun violence. This is reportedly the highest rate in the last decade.

Now Americans are busy preparing such a "school thing", called bulletproof satchel, being afraid to send their children to schools as they are worried about their children's lives.

Reality clearly proves that the US is a human rights desert and a veritable hell.

Gun crimes are an incurable disease in the US, where extreme individualism and hatred are rife in society and the law of the jungle prevails.

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