The United States Congress refuses to limit access to firearms, despite the increase in deaths from shooting, criticized today a report published by The Hill newspaper.
Signed by Juan Williams, political analyst for Fox News Channel, the article points out that the rise in crime is not the problem but violence with firearms.
Our elected representatives accept as fact that more than 100 Americans are killed on average each day by gunfire, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he said.
Last week, he said, a report in the medical journal “Injury Epidemiology” warned that the continued increase in gun sales, armed violence and political extremism are putting “the United States at risk of disaster in the coming months.” .
The expert cited a survey conducted last September by the Pew Research Center, which showed that 48 percent of Americans say gun violence is “a very big problem in the country today” and 53 percent he wants gun laws to be toughened, he remarked.
He appreciated that with the collapse of strong political pressure from the National Rifle Association (NRA), due to costly lawsuits and accusations of financial mismanagement, a window of opportunity opens for Congress to act.
He stated that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court opposes considering a lawsuit to eliminate New York laws, which limit the right to carry a gun in public.
The analysts indicated that throughout the country there was a 26 percent increase in gun killings in 2020, a figure that should increase by 9.0 percent in 2021.
One of the consequences of all these shootings is the increase in people who buy more weapons, he stressed.
He added that black Americans account for 68 percent of homicide victims in large cities, many of them victims of gun violence, according to data from a year ago from Time magazine.
For example, he specified, in California, in 2020, about half of those killed by homicides were Latinos, who represent around 39 percent of the state’s inhabitants and almost a third of those affected black, who are around 6.5 percent of the population in that demarcation.
Congress did not act to limit access to weapons despite the number of incidents of violence involving these devices.
“Congress still doesn’t see the obvious. Guns are the problem, ”Williams stressed.
