Irish new wave musician Bob Geldof was doing a radio interview in the US in 1979 when the telex machine went live, broadcasting news of a school shooting.
He pushed her to write the song I Don’t Like Mondays … the reason a young girl shot to open fire on her teacher and friends. At that time, shooting was rare.
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Today, mass shootings — defined as four or more victims — are so common that the U.S. has had 129 this year.
Most recently, on Monday, saw a young woman armed with two rifles and a handgun shoot down six people, three of them children, at a church school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Right-wing Americans believe that it is a God-given right to “cloud hands”, which is a misinterpretation of the constitution, which indicates that the militia is allowed to keep weapons to defend the country. However, even moderate citizens do it, and getting a military grade killing machine is very easy.
The gun lobby is so powerful in a country where successive administrations, even the most liberal, have failed to tackle gun control. When there are many disturbed people in a society, they are not allowed to have access to deadly weapons.
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