Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, was still mourning its twenty preparatory class toddlers and six employees killed by a misfit, whom the NRA (National Rifle Association) had mounted.
It was in 2012. The arms lobby, which holds its annual convention in Houston from May 27 to 29, wanted to keep the controversy at bay.
Its president Wayne LaPierre had imagined a program called “School Shield (school shield)” aimed at “
hardening
” the security of schools: offering subsidies to equip them with surveillance technologies, arm security guards and even teachers.
While recalling his leitmotif: mental health, because “
it is not weapons that kill people, but people who kill people
”.
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United States: in the face of mass shootings, the question of gun control
A decade of lead has passed, marked by 948 school shootings.
According to the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, 12 children die daily from firearms.
4.6 million American children live in homes where there is…
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