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Opinion Article
"HOOKED ON FEAR"
On April 16th, 2007, "thirty-three people were killed and fifteen others were wounded at Virginia Tech University in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history", writes the Reuters.
Americans still remember the massacre in Columbine High School, at Colorado, when two young-boys shot and killed twelve students and one teacher. The United States of America woke up and experienced the same nightmare.
President of the U.S., George W. Bush was standing in front of Virginia Tech's Students and Faculty and stated that: "This is a day of sadness for all Nations". Same words, that the former President, Bill Clinton said on April 20th, 1999 at the Columbine High School Auditorium at Colorado.
Up to date, we have had two Presidents, one Constitution that recognizes the right to the American citizen to bear and keep arms and eleven thousand one hundred twenty seven individuals (11.127) killed annually in the U.S by firearms.
The Association "Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence", in the United States, claims that both Colorado and Virginia take an "F" in the State final Report, in Secondary "Private" Sales Background Checks. An "F" means that there is no background check if the potential buyer is mentally ill.
Some may wonder why Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman from Korea, in Virginia Tech killed innocent people, when both Eric Harris and Dylan Climbolt killed their schoolmates at Colorado in 1999. At the question why so many people are killed every year, the National Riffle Association portrait the Government as the one which gives the permission of carrying weapons.
"People look for intrinsic reasons for Cho's acts, when the simpler explanation–to the extent that such a horrendous act can ever be explained–is that Cho was a mentally ill young man, who should never have had access to guns", says Laila Lalami, Virginia Tech alumna from Morocco.
Furthermore,...
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