The killer of the massacre in a school in Georgia would be 14 years old. Law enforcement sources reported this to the CNN specifying that it is not clear whether he was a student at the high school.
New school year, same tragic script in the United StatesAt least four people died and 30 were injured in the latest massacre in an American school that could have had a much more dramatic outcome if, according to initial reconstructions of the facts, the intervention of the police had it not been timely.
This time fear has been unleashed in Apalachee High School Of Windernear the city of Athensbefore ten in the morning when someone, whose identity and motive are not yet known, opened fire, spreading panic and terror among the children. law enforcement and emergency services were called at around 10.23am and the institution was placed on lockdown lockdownas well as all the nearby school facilities.
Live images of the American TV showed a strong presence of the police but also of ambulanceswhile some students were gathered on the field by football. The governor of the Georgiathe republican Brian Kempannounced that it has mobilised all necessary resources to deal with the incident and Joe Biden was immediately informed by the National Security Advisor Liz Sherwood Randall of the new incident of gun violence. “The administration will continue to coordinate with federal, state and local officials as we receive more information,” said the White House in a note.
Fortunately, after about two hours a suspect was arrested by the police and the students were free to return to their families. It is still unclear whether the perpetrator of the shooting was a student, nor have the names of the victims or the motive emerged, but, less than two weeks before the start of the school year, the only certainty is that massacres of this type in United States continue to be an ineradicable plague and will be one of the hot topics at the center of the last months of the election campaign.
In line with the efforts of Biden, Kamala Harris and his deputy Tim Walz they are planning to tighten controls on the purchase of weapons and have brought on stage at the Democratic convention a Chicago the dramatic testimony of the mother of Sandy Hookthe elementary school where one of the worst massacres in American history took place, and Uvaldein Texas. On the other side Donald Trump And J.D. Vance they profess to be supporters of the second amendment of the Constitution, the right to have a weapon, dismissing the tragedy of the massacres as a question that concerns only the mental health. On the other hand, the Republican candidates are tempted by the huge aid from Norathe powerful American gun lobby, which traditionally supports the Grand Old Party.
Last year the USA have recorded the highest number of mass shootings since 2006 and despite the current president’s continued calls for Congress to ban at least “weapons of war”, such as Ar-15in a country where 390 million pistols, rifles and machine guns are in circulation, bans are not getting through.