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Massacre in Texas: "For some Americans, including Democrats, the firearm is a cultural object"

2022-05-25T17:30:58.384Z


INTERVIEW - On May 24, a young man shot and killed 19 children and 2 adults at a school in Texas. For Olivier Piton, a lawyer in Washington, a limitation of the carrying of weapons in the United States would only be possible if the States consent to it, and would also require a more restrictive interpretation...


Olivier Piton is a lawyer in Washington and elected consular.

Last published work: “Kamala Harris.

The pioneer of America” (Plon, 2021).

LE FIGARO.

- An 18-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, killing 19 young students and two teachers.

Is there a particular culture of violence in this country where frequent killings are carried out by often young men?

Olivier PITTON.

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There is a double culture that explains the inability to modify, except at the margin, the legislation on firearms in the United States.

The first is inherited from the American Revolution.

Indeed, the second amendment to the Constitution – at least its current reading – celebrates the right of every citizen to bear a weapon.

Before independence, this right was reserved only for the British.

It is therefore a form of mythology of the liberation of the people.

According to this discourse, modifying national legislation and above all modifying the Constitution on the carrying of arms would therefore amount to calling into question the sacrosanct balance between the states and the American federal state.

Olivier Piton

The second is linked to the prerogatives of the States against the federal State, always suspected of wanting to trim the…

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