The massacre today in a U.S. college, after a shooting that caused dozens of deaths, is just the latest of similar episodes that periodically hit the United States. The tragedy will raise a hornet's nest of opinions and accusations, which are useful to fill seats and to straighten the audience of U.S. talk show, everything as in 1999 when the Columbine massacre shook the imaginary American Institute, linked to the idea of \u200b\u200bschool as means of escaping violence in the ghettos of the shootings. The wonder that violence explode as well, in an unexpected place, seemingly without warning, makes the mistake of confining these cases diverted to the mind of some young boys, as if listening to a certain type of music, bad company, or some mental disorder adolescent could justify a massacre. The scope of incidents like this is not so as to reduce a phenomenon on a personal basis, but perhaps in a malaise that affects American society as a whole, including the ease of gun ownership is just a corollary. Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, a documentary about the Columbine massacre, said the reason that the U.S. has a number of murders per capita three to four times higher than the European countries (see articles PeaceReporter: art. 1 and art. 2) with the presence and easy availability weapons state, a view supported by study at Harvard School of Public Health. Certainly the availability of weapons for all the violence can help you realize that the common person can try, but perhaps the problem should be tackled at its root. These phenomena are united by two things: it happens in places of training, and are made by young people. If a state like the United States is hit at home, by the people who are its future, and right in a symbol of their growth as citizens, is then to think that there is something wrong with the values \u200b\u200bthat in general ' Education and the U.S. mass media transmit to their generations. Will then just the statement that President George W. Bush will make to the nation on the matter, it is precisely because the U.S. administration and the propaganda that is bound to be legitimate form of behavior that laws in recent years have marked the world affairs: it thinks of the "Act" in the name of defense against terrorism justifies the restriction of rights (like privacy) of U.S. citizens, or detention without charge at Guantanamo as certain. There is no question the civil law to the possession of a weapon, as set by the U.S. Bill of Rights, but the abuse of rights that characterizes U.S. foreign and domestic policy. If the 'American dream "that the U.S. intends to export is made of war ... and if this is justified for the defense of the Fatherland, was hardly surprising that their children of this culture to be influenced. If violence and abuse are legal means for a state for the resolution of conflicts, it is not surprising that the weapons are seen by citizens a legitimate means of asserting their will. And it is perhaps in this light that you can read the U.S. refusal to abolish the death penalty and to regulate the arms trade: gun violence is not governed only by the political power of the National Rifle Association business and economic generates, but also has its roots in a culture that considers the weapons, or violence in general, half as another, if not the preferred way of confrontation and conflict.
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