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http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15221
2022.6.7.
On May 24, a terrible incident took place at an elementary school in Texas where an 18-year-old criminal showered bullets at random, killing 19 schoolchildren and 2 teachers, and inflicting severe injuries upon 10-odd schoolchildren, throwing the world once again into consternation.
According to the announcement of the state authority, the criminal purchased 2 offensive guns from the store. He then murdered his grandmother and burst into the school where he was studying, and fired at random running about in the classrooms.
This incident reminds us of the mega-scale crime in 2012. Scores of people including 20 schoolchildren lost their lives from a shooting spree at an elementary school in Connecticut.
Tragedy is that the action to crack down on the criminal was delayed as many as 80 minutes though nineteen policemen arrived by phone report at the time of the incident; they were utterly unable to do anything until the arrival of additional armed persons, and waited until the school authorities turned over the classroom key to them with no mind to start the operation immediately.
It was later found out that most of the murdered students could have been saved had they received prompt medical treatments within 30 or 40 minutes after being shot, but the half-hearted response of police failed to save their lives.
Extending the deepest regret, condolence and sympathy for the reckless shooting spree which claimed the valuable lives of innocent children in the U.S., the whole world is now expressing its astonishment at the irresponsible reaction of the police. It also demands ever more strongly that the U.S. government take proper measures against recurrence of such an incident.
In connection with this incident, all the areas in the U.S. are also lamenting the fact that the shooting sprees, which no other countries experience, continuously take place at home, and are giving vent to anger that innocent children fall victim to gun-related crime.
But even before the heartbreaking after-effects of this incident die out, the world was again shocked to see wild shooting incidents occurring in Oklahoma and Tennessee, killing several and injured more than 10 people.
This shows that gun-related crime is becoming an incurable chronic disease of the U.S.
The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. have recently made public that the cases of all sorts of shooting sprees happened in the country in 2021 marked an increase of 52.5% compared to 2020, and that as many as 45,000 children were killed by gun-related crime in 2020.
Then why is gun-related crime ineradicable in the U.S.?
It is because the American social and political system is an anti-people society that entirely serves to replenish the purse of a tiny handful of arms manufacturers which only pursue huge financial profits in disregard of the life safety of the popular masses, and their demands and interests.
In the U.S., right to existence, the most important right for human beings, is trampled underfoot by the wealthy capitalists.
Nevertheless, the U.S. is apt to say this and that about human rights of other countries, and it is interfering in other countries’ internal affairs as if it were a “human rights judge”.
The U.S. persists in making words and deeds, not knowing where to draw the line. It is not because it is really concerned about human rights, but it is to realize its ulterior purpose for world hegemony through them.
Before talking about “human rights” of other countries, the U.S. had better put its house in order where even the elementary right to existence is not provided properly.
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