New York signs 10 new gun control bills

Governor Kathy Hochul said, Shooting is happening across the United States, and New York State is taking strong action to stem the trend. Raising the age to buy semi-automatic weapons is intended to prevent young adults from accessing and buying weapons with high lethality. New York lawmakers passed the bills after two mass shootings in the past month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York that left 10 people dead and at an elementary school in Texas, where 19 students attended. Students and 2 teachers were murdered. In both cases, the gunmen who carried out the massacre were 18 years old.

The perpetrators of mass shootings in the US are getting younger and younger

The decision by New York state officials comes at a time when those who have carried out recent shootings are increasingly young. This again raises concerns about the age of both those who are allowed to buy guns, commit gun violence and their victims.

Shock, grief and fear are the emotions of people in Uvalde, Texas when a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School – a school shooting that resulted in casualties. in the United States in a decade.

Just nine days before the Uvalde school shooting, a young man killed 10 people of color with a gun and wounded three others in a Buffalo supermarket. And many of these crimes have at least one thing in common – they’re all committed by teenagers.

An 18-year-old gunman attacked Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde (Texas), killing 19 children and two teachers. Photo: Reuters

The Washington Post database shows that the perpetrators of these school shootings are getting younger and younger, most with an average age of just 16. Salvador Ramos, the gunman behind the Texas elementary school massacre last month, said to be haunted by the violent video game “Call of Duty”.

Mr. Joseph Williams – Security and political analyst said: “Clearly, America worships guns. Look at the movies, cinematic legends are built with the image of guns.”

There are nearly 400 million guns in the US, significantly more than the population of the country, and nearly half of American adults say they keep a gun at home. Children are exposed to weapons easily in their own homes, and most people are unaware of how dangerous these weapons are. This easy accessibility is emphasized in the state of Virginia, where a 13-year-old is not old enough to buy beer, cigarettes or lottery tickets, but they can buy a rifle from a private seller freely. easy and legal.

Data from the New England Journal of Medicine shows that by 2020, gun accidents will overtake automobile accidents as the leading cause of death among children.

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