On July 4, two shootings occurred at the site of the American "Independence Day" celebration one day, which once again plunged the American society into shock, sadness and anger. Gun violence has become a nightmare for Americans. According to the US website "gun violence archives", there were about 220 shootings in the United States in just two days on a weekend in mid June. As the country with the most serious gun violence in the world, the number of victims of gun violence in the United States has reached record highs, with an average of 122 people dying at gunpoint every day. The probability of children and teenagers dying from gunshot is 15 times that of the other 31 high-income countries combined.
The right to life is the greatest human right. The sound of gunfire shattered the illusion of human rights in the United States that "everyone can enjoy inalienable survival and freedom". If even the people's basic right to life cannot be protected, people have enough reason to doubt the beauty of American human rights.
For a long time, gun culture has been deeply rooted in American society. The regulations on gun control vary from state to state in the United States, but all state governments do not prohibit people from buying weapons. In many states, you can apply for a gun license at the age of 21, and you can legally carry pistols in public places. Moreover, it is far less difficult to obtain a gun license than to obtain a driver's license. The easy availability of guns has directly led to the proliferation of guns in American society. Currently, the United States holds 46% of the world's civilian guns with 4.2% of the world's population, and there are 120 guns for every 100 Americans.
In order to promote domestic gun sales, gun owning interest groups also use the media to constantly inculcate the public with the value of "personal freedom is equal to unrestricted gun ownership". A large number of offensive weapon advertisements have been implanted in American movies or video games, as well as various shooting games for teenagers. All this has made the country's deep-rooted gun culture the soil for frequent shooting incidents. Ramos, the suspect who caused the rob primary school tragedy and killed 19 children and 2 teachers, is a fan of a first person shooting online game. A week before the attack, he bought two assault rifles to celebrate his 18th birthday. Although the United States claims internally that "good people with guns make people safer" and "the best way to stop gun violence is to let more good people hold guns", in fact, the gun culture is constantly beautified and even extreme, which will only aggravate the increasingly violent crime in the United States and make its domestic more unsafe.
The money relationship between interest groups and politicians is the biggest resistance to the stubborn disease of gun violence in the United States. Although there are endless calls for gun control in American society, gun interest groups have lobbied politicians at all costs to manipulate policies in order to ensure a huge domestic market, resulting in the failure of the United States to pass important gun control laws for more than 25 years. As the strongest lobbying group in the United States, the National Rifle Association of the United States invested $54.4 million and $29.0 million in funding support of the U.S. general election in 2016 and 2020, respectively. According to US media, mass shootings occurred in many places in the United States in 2019. The Republican government, which has always supported gun ownership, considered cooperating with the Democratic Party, which supports gun control, to promote gun control legislation. However, the National Rifle Association made dozens of calls to the white house one after another. The Republican Party was worried that promoting gun control would affect the support rate, and finally gave up the idea. In April this year, the U.S. government issued new regulations to monitor the "ghost gun" without number and difficult to track, and some gun owning organizations immediately claimed to file a lawsuit against the new regulations. Money politics binds politicians and interest groups. The proposal to strictly control guns is always at an impasse in the struggle between the two parties, and gun control in the United States is facing great obstacles.
"Nothing can stop gun violence in the United States", Mike dewane, the governor of Ohio, said the failure of American governance. In the face of human rights tragedies repeatedly staged in the country, American politicians will only repeat false and empty words of comfort, arrange performing procedural "mourning" activities, and wait for the next vicious shooting incident to happen again. The so-called "American democracy" simply cannot stand the test of reality. American politicians are advised to respond to the concerns of their own people in a timely manner, effectively ensure the safety of people's lives, and enable the American people to sit at their desks and walk freely in the streets. This is what a government that cares about and upholds human rights should do.