The NRA annual agreement, the main American weapons lobby, was held on Friday in Houston, 450 kilometers from Uvalde, where an 18-year-old teenager killed nineteen children and two teachers in a school primary Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump again defended the second amendment.
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So close to the drama, so little concerned. Thousands of people flocked to Houston (Texas), Friday, May 27, on the occasion of the National Rifle Association’s annual convention (NRA), the main American weapons lobby. Three days after the killing in Uvalde primary school, 450 kilometers away, a form of gravity was imposed on the participants, without changing their convictions of a notch. They celebrated their talisman, the second controversial amendment to the Constitution, protecting the right to be armed. Scheduled over three days, the program of the event is dense: a dinner of hunters, a law seminar, a forum of engaged women, a large exhibition fair with pistols, assault rifles and late hunting. And then, brand guests, starting with former President Donald Trump, a regular of this platform.
At La Tribune on Friday, the minute of silence in memory of the victims of Uvalde lasted ten seconds. Or a brief interlude between the Pro Domo pleas. Wayne Lapierre, the president of the NRA, described the author of the killing of “criminal monster”. He spoke of too lax justice, a broken mental health system, insufficient protection of schools, but rejected any questioning of the “fundamental human law” of any citizen to protect himself.
At the end of the afternoon, Donald Trump spoke. He began by giving the names of these “beautiful people” that were the victims of the Robb school, each followed by a resounding gong, absolutely surreal, before welcoming this moment of silence, which was not one. Redoubling of adjectives to denounce the author of the killing in Uvalde, “condemned to burn forever in the fires of hell”, Donald Trump repeated the eternal recipes of the pro-Armes movement: more metal detectors, more guards and armed police in schools. More training in the security services to deal with shooters in action. More psychiatric care. No limitation to the second amendment. In a rhetorical reversal, the ex-president accused democrats of pushing “an extreme left political agenda”, adding: “The United States has 40 billion dollars [37.2 billion euros] to send in Ukraine, we must be able to do what is necessary to protect our children. “
doctrinaire reading of the second amendment
Outside the building where the Convention was held, hundreds of angry demonstrators denounced the weapon lobby. Uvalde’s killing, in which Salvador Ramos, 18, murdered nineteen children and two adults, recalls the responsibilities of industry industrialists and their main promoter, NRA. Powerful organization despite a decline influence, supporting Republican candidates (nearly $ 29 million in 2020), she did not plan to cancel her rally. Faced with numerous justice complaints and competition from even more radical pro-Armes associations, the NRA does not want to project a feeling of vulnerability. She therefore refuses to discuss a ban on weapons of war, such as automatic rifles, in the name of a doctrinaire reading of the second amendment.
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