In the first eight months of 2023, the United States recorded 470 mass shootings in the country and more than 25,000 Americans died from gun violence, said Gulf News, an English newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, in a recent editorial, according to the article published on Thursday An average of 22 children under the age of 17 sustained gunshot wounds, with the majority of victims being shooting deaths, including deaths by suicide.
“In America, you send a child to school with no guarantee that he or she will come back alive.” It is a country that strengthens evil in the fight against good. “Dreams cannot be built on the basis of a license to kill,” Gulf News stressed.
Americans’ gun culture is part of their constitutional right and is so deeply embedded in the local mentality that the fact that children are shot every day will not lead to a change in the status quo, he added.
Faced with the grim reality, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told CNN: “This is the only country in the world where men who break with reality exorcise their demons through mass murder.”
Gun violence has long been a contentious and deadly issue in American society. According to the North American country’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of deaths from firearm-related injuries in the United States has increased since 2004, reaching a record 48,830 in 2021.