From Columbine High to Robb Elementary School
NRA and the brutalisation of America
The weekend will end with America’s National Rifle Association (NRA) wrapping up its annual convention, all blasé about the fact that in the first 144 days of 2022, America has suffered at least 213 mass shootings , according to the Gun Violence Archive. (A mass shooting, incidentally, is categorised as one that has resulted in at least four victims killed or injured.)
This year, the world is paying a bit more attention than usual to the NRA because the organisation is meeting just days after a young man armed with a military assault rifle and high-capacity magazines walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and killed 19 children and two adults.
The tragic incident occurred just 280 miles from Houston, where the NRA is championing, as it does, the right for Americans to bear arms, despite everything…
The NRA is growing bolder with every year and its cascade of mass shootings across America.
Consider this. According to leaked tapes, after Columbine…
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