The deaths of ten African Americans in a racist massacre in Buffalo on Saturday sent new shock waves to the United States and abroad, but the country has also experienced another weekend of violence by guns, a plague that daily newspaper that has continued to grow since 2020.
The statistics of deaths by guns in this country of 330 million inhabitants are staggering: nearly 45,000 deaths in 2021, including approximately 24,000 suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive organization that compiles daily on each tragedy it throughout the territory.
There were 39,389 people killed in 2019, including 23,941 suicides. On May 16, 2022, exactly 16,068 people died this year because of guns, including 8,976 suicides. That’s a surprising average rate of 118 deaths per day.
Signs that the country is ringing again, President Joe Biden is in Buffalo on Tuesday to share the pain of a community that has lost ten of itself in a horrific and pointless mass shootingannounced the White House, which denounced the hatred that remains a stain on the soul of America.
Be theUNthrough the voice of Secretary General Antonio Guterres ’spokesman, condemned an act heinous racism and violent extremism.
In this city of Buffalo, in the far north of the state of New York, on the shores of Lake Erie and the Canadian border, residents have been mourning for two days mourning the murder of their fellow citizens at a Tops supermarket in a major inhabited by ‘African Americans. .
The 10 people killed were all black, Erie District Attorney John Flynn said, and the person who allegedly killed them was a young white supremacist accused of perpetrating a racist hate crime and an act of domestic terrorismaccording to authorities.
Payton Gendron, 18, drove more than 300 miles from his upstate home to carry out the massacre, even making a reconnaissance trip in March and a day before the massacre, the city’s police chief revealed. city, Joseph Gramaglia.
This individual came with the intent to kill as many black people as possibledenounced Buffalo’s African-American Mayor, Byron Brown, while Commissioner Gramaglia told CNN that the suspect planned to continue his murder and shoot people to kill more.
ang hate crime means in the United States an action directed against a person because of elements of his or her identity such as race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or disability. Considered an aggravated federal offense, it carries more violent sentences.
Payton Gendron, charged for planned murdernot guilty in his first appearance this weekend and is scheduled to return to court on Thursday.
The young man was carrying a camera and broadcast his crime on Twitch even though the platform claimed to have removed the content two minutes after the start of its broadcast.
He also published before the massacre a manifest 180-page racist, linking him according to the media with white supremacists and far-right conspiracy theorists, supporters of the theory of great replacement.
Almost a strange voice among conservatives in the House of Representatives in Washington to oppose former President Donald Trump, Republican -elected Liz Cheney accused on Twitter the leadership of the House party for making white nationalism, white supremacism and anti-Semitism forgiving.
The racist massacre in Buffalo is reminiscent of those in El Paso (Texas) in August 2019 (23 dead, including mostly Latin Americans) and Charleston (South Carolina) in June 2015 (nine African Americans killed in a church).
And it comes in a cycle of violence summed up by Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy in a tweet describing a weekend in america : Asian man killed and four others injured in male church shooting in California; two dead and three wounded in Houston; five dead in St. Louis and five others in Chicago; 21 injured in shooting in Milwaukee after a basketball game. Authorities had to impose a curfew.
Gunfire in public spaces is happening daily in the United States, and gun crime is on the rise in all major cities, especially since the 2020 pandemic and the ensuing socio-economic tensions and psychological.
Many executive and legislative initiatives over the years to legislate firearms have failed, the lobby NRA remains very influential in the United States.
Source: Radio-Canada
