Tuesday, March 6, 2018

We have all seen the reports that deadly school shooting on last Feb 14th, in Florida (US) in which 17 people out which 14 students were killed in cold blood. It is also widely reported that AR15 rifle was used in the massacre of the students was so lethal that it would pierce a battle helmet and make deep hole in the body as Grenade does. The horrendous permissive ambience in American society is such that any teenager can easily pickup AR-15 rifle off the shelf in a shop and gift-wrap it if he/she wishes. This is what I have been told during our last visit to US, North Carolina. This incident also reminds us of a similar inhumanly devastating school shooting in which 20 children between six and seven years of age died, in Newton, Connecticut in the year 2012. The then President Obama was in tears after that dastardly incident but his efforts to bring gun control to the floor of the Congress fell on deaf ears. A bleeding America refused to learn lessons from her nightmarish gory past. As in other corrupt democratic countries, the American lawmakers also are “paid fed and pampered” during every election. It’s a pity that the nation like US, which is exploring the possibilities of human habitation in remote planets like Mars, is not unable to save the lives of its own school children from trigger-happy shooters? Amidst all the chaos the powerful man on earth Trump suggests arming school teachers. In a statement he says, “school safety is guaranteed if 20% of the teachers have guns.” I’m sure that American Public must be realising now the folly of electing a maverick like Trump who was unabashedly funded by domineering gun lobbies during the last Presidential campaign in 2016. I’m afraid, America must protect itself first from its bloodthirsty gun lobbies and the so-called global cop should set his house in order before mouthing platitudes.