By D N Singh
It has been an aching social problem in the world’s most advanced country, America, where the incidents of mass shooting at various locations, killing children and other innocent people with unfailing regularity.
On Thursday in an yet another shooting rage one was killed and few others injured in Los Angeles.
Sadly, today in another incident of shooting in Australia, three were shot dead in Queen’s Land.
Although after a recent incident of mass shooting in a shopping mall,where several people were killed coldblooded, the Joe Biden administration in US had not had its conscience stirred to bring about a legislation in US to check the gun culture, which has gone overboard and America being a victim to highest number of mass shootings in the World.
There is no definition as why does it happen due to public firearm violence, excluding gang killings. Neither Biden could do anything specifically.
Unfortunately so, a study shows that, nearly one third of the world’s mass shootings between 1966 and 2012, ninety of 292 incidents took place in US.
In all such incidents, it has been found that, shooters generally kill themselves or get killed by the security.
Imagine a shooter opens random firing in a school where the kids are finished before they could scream even. So, the fear psychosis remain a lasting mental trauma in the minds of children.
A study found that 45.6% took place in a business or commercial setting, 16.9% occurred in schools, 7.5% in institutions of higher education, 9.4% in open spaces, 6.9% in (non-military) government properties, 3.1% in military sites, 4.4% in homes, 3.8% in places of worship, and 2.5% in healthcare settings.
In spite of the repeat occurrence of such outrages in public, in schools and homes, the US administration has never been seen in any mission mode to control the gun culture.
Tracking all mass killings, a US media found that between 2006 and 2017, when the shooters willfully killed four or more, and for mass killing by firearms, there were 271 incidents taking the total of casualties to a whopping, 1, 358.
Higher accessibility and ownership of guns has been cited as a reason for the U.S.’s high rate of mass shootings.
