“Record-Breaking” Gun-Related Crimes in U.S.

 2023.2.1.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16453

Gun-related crimes in the U.S. may beat a world record.

Not long ago, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced that over 6, 540 guns were detected among airplane passengers in the year 2022 alone.

This is a 10% increase compared to an all-time record of 5,970 guns in 2021, “breaking” a “new record” for two consecutive years.

According to the Administration’s reports, some passengers were detected trying to board planes with pistols hidden inside a live chicken or semiautomatic rifle parts which were dissembled and concealed in peanut butter.

What’s more surprising is the fact that 88% of the detected guns were found fully loaded.

Meanwhile, an American website posted that, as of December 26, 2022, 6,021 juveniles were killed or injured owing to gun-related crimes, which is an all-time high since the website started keeping statistics after its launch.

It said that gun-related crimes in the year 2022 claimed the lives of 1,629 juveniles among which 306 were under 11.

The U.S. Centres for Disease Control (CDC) also published a report and deplored the human rights situation in the U.S. which is getting ever more deteriorated owing to gun-related crimes. The report stated that the number of gun-related murder cases in the U.S. increased by 8% in 2020-2021 which was the highest record since the early 1990s.

Likewise, the U.S. has “maintained” its position as the “gun-related crime champion” last year by breaking “records” of all gun-related crimes.

Entering this year, the gun-related crimes in the U.S. continues to witness the explosive growth.

33 cases of gun-related crimes occurred so far. This means that an average of one or two gun-related crimes occurred per day.

On January 16, gang members shot six people to death including a 10-month old infant in California. This made the U.S. society tremble with fear and apprehension from the very beginning of the new year.

On January 21, even before the after-effects of this incident could die out, a 72-year-old unidentified guy sprayed bullets at people, killing 11 and injuring 10. Including this incident, three shooting sprees occurred in three consecutive days in California.

These are harbingers of another “record-breaker” by the U.S. for gun-related crimes this year.

An amendment to the Gun Control Law was adopted in June last year and Biden cries out for “condemnation” and “preventing recurrence” whenever shooting incidents happen. But they are all no more than hypocrisy to deceive its people.

The U.S., mentioning about “human rights” of other countries, is indeed an “Â’Q” of the 21st century who is oblivious of its own desperate position, not being able to ensure its people’s rights to life, the most fundamental and basic human rights.