A police car outside the Tulsa medical center where the shooting took place. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 25The US authorities will never impose such strict restrictions that are necessary to prevent new cases of mass shooting, due to opposition from the national arms lobby, well-known Australian activist Helen Caldicott told RIA Novosti. The day before, the Senate, and on Friday and the House of Representatives of the US Congress voted in favor a bipartisan bill designed to tighten gun control in the country. The initiative, among other things, imposes restrictions on its sale to persons convicted of domestic violence crimes; tightens background checks on buyers under the age of 21, and makes it a federal crime to smuggle and acquire «firearms» through nominees. Although the US Democratic Party has expressed support for the passage of this bill, a number of its influential members, including Nancy Pelosi publicly criticized the proposed measures as insufficient. Now, after the approval of both houses of Congress, the initiative will go to the signature of President Joe Biden. According to Caldicott, it is unlikely that US gun laws will change to allow the authorities to prevent new mass shootings. The activist explained that today, many of the congressmen in the United States receive funding from organizations lobbying for the free bearing of weapons, the most powerful of which is the National Rifle Association (NRA). «/>Nine people were injured in a shooting at a mall in the United States»In Australia, we survived a case of massacre — 35 people were victims of a shooting in Port Arthur on April 28, 1996. The country was so shocked by the incident that Prime Minister John Howard ordered all firearms to be declared outside the law, obliging all (civilians) to hand it over to the federal authorities, after which it was destroyed,» Caldicott said. The medical organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, founded with her participation, working to protect civilians from the threats of nuclear proliferation, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The second amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right to own firearms to Americans. However, the discussion on this topic revived again after the recent mass shooting in the Texas town of Uvalde, when 19 children and two adults were killed at the hands of a teenager in one of the schools. Speaking about the incident in a special address to the nation, Joe Biden said that the second amendment «is not an absolute.» In the same speech, the head of state called for «challenging the arms lobby», proposed a ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and also raised the threshold for buying weapons from 18 to 21.
2021-2022 U.S. School Shootings»Essentially and in fact, Americans worship death at almost every level of society. The Greater United States has become a country of legalized killings,» regretfully Caldicott stated. According to the non-governmental organization OpenSecrets, in 2021 gun lobbyists spent more than $15.7 million on their activities, a record since 1998. The largest donors are the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which spent $5 million in lobbying, and the NRA, which spent $4.9 million to promote its interests. .jpg» />One person injured in US hospital shooting, media reported
