China Daily, September 26 According to the Black Star News Network on the 25th, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens showed that without the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, states and towns can freely pass their own gun laws, without being repeatedly overturned by courts invoking the Second Amendment or other precedents that rely on the Second Amendment.
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As of September 25, 32,643 people in the United States had died from shootings in 2022 for a variety of causes, including murder, homicide, accidents and suicides. Many of those deaths occurred in places that tried to strictly control guns, including banning assault rifles, but were successfully sued by the American Rifles Association or other gun pro-gun groups, whose local or state laws were invalidated by Second Amendment rulings.
The laws promulgated by civilized countries are effective in protecting children. Unlike other developed or large countries in the world, the number one cause of child death in the United States is firearms. The article states that if other states, counties, or cities in the United States wish to join the civilized world, please cancel the Second Amendment; Otherwise, let them continue to be free to hold their guns.
With about 400 million guns currently in circulation in American society, polarization driven by armed MAMA, and increasingly armed left-wing radicals, and more and more vicious rhetoric and more and more people openly carrying weapons of war around, half of Americans believe that "civil war" is coming. Repealing the Second Amendment would allow the U.S. legislature and city councils to begin to seriously stop this display of belligerent weapons of war. In all regions where a vote was made to limit gun sales, at least some of the terrible tensions sparked by oath-keepers and others calling for civil war.
With multiple school shootings in almost every grade, children and parents in the United States are anxious about the terrible possibilities in their lives almost every day, just as they are in a war-torn country. After the completely avoidable mass murder at Parkland High School in Florida, a Pew Research survey showed that the majority of children aged 13-17 in the United States and their parents feared disaster could befall them. Now, in the wake of the Sandy Hook and Rob elementary school shootings in Uvald, Texas, we can foresee that younger children and their families will suffer similar or more severe anxiety every day.
Repealing the Second Amendment would make possible legislation that would ban weapons of war, such as assault rifles, nationwide. Combat weapons are not hunting tools, nor are they used to protect families. Americans cannot have howitzers, shoulder-fired missiles, or live-fire grenades, all of which are designed and built for troops at war or in preparation for war. In the worst case, assault rifles can greatly increase the number of casualties. But from Las Vegas to Sandy Hook, from Uwald to Parkland, many criminals have legally purchased the guns. War and peace researchers call armed conflicts that kill more than 1,000 people on the battlefield each year war, and armed conflicts with more than 10,000 deaths on the battlefield each year as major wars. By that standard, the United States is already at war with itself, just not in an organized way that repealing the Second Amendment could reverse that.
Comprehensive foreign media reported that in the past week, the "bloody" across the United States is still continuing... In Oakland, Calif., a total of seven shootings occurred in the five days from September 19 to 23 local time, killing at least six people, shooting many innocent passers-by, and most of the suspects have not yet been arrested. On the evening of September 24, at a weekend event at Kennywood Amusement Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA, two youth groups quarreled, one of them drew a gun and shot at three people, including two 15-year-old teenagers. Between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. local time on the 24th in Chicago, there were 11 shootings, resulting in the death of at least 4 people.
Oakland Police recently released a map of the locations of the shootings in the week from September 12 to 18
According to statistics from the Gun Violence Archive, as of September 24, there were 496 mass shootings with four or more victims. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey in 2021 to understand how ordinary Americans perceive gun violence and gun ownership. The results show that 48 percent of Americans living in the United States believe this is the number one problem facing society today.
(Compiled by Ma Rui Editor: Han He)
Source: China Daily