Three children and three adults were killed on Monday, March 27, by a young woman who opened fire at an elementary school in Nashville, in the southern United States, before she was killed by the police.
During the incident, local police spokesman Don Aaron said the woman, armed with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, stormed into the premises of a private Christian school in the morning.
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Officers were quickly dispatched to the scene. After hearing shots upstairs, they went upstairs. ” immediately “ He returned and her “kill” said the attacker.
young lady “who looks under 20”He fired several shots as he advanced on the establishment.
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“Three students were fatally wounded, as well as three adults.”But there are no other injuries, Don Aaron said.
Elementary school “the covenant” It has about 200 students and about forty employees.
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Several elected officials from Tennessee immediately expressed their feelings on social networks. “I am saddened and saddened by the tragic news from Covenant School”Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty tweeted.
The United States, where nearly 400 million firearms circulate, is often bereaved by fatal shootings, including in schools.
The most striking tragedy was committed by a madman in 2012 in an elementary school in Connecticut, during which 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7 were killed.
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Such a traumatic event repeated itself in May 2022 when an 18-year-old man shot and killed 19 students and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
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In between these two tragedies, a massacre perpetrated at a Florida high school, on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, sparked a nationwide movement, led by youth, to demand stricter oversight of individual guns in the United States.
Malgré the mobilization of more than a million manifestants, the Congrès des Etats-Unis n’a pas adoptedé of loi ambitieuse, nombre d’élus étant sous l’influence of the puissante National Rifle Association (NRA), the premier lobby of America arms.
In a country where millions of Americans consider carrying a gun a constitutional right, the only recent legislative developments remain fringe, such as the universalization of criminal and psychological background checks prior to any gun purchase.
