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n Aurora, Colorado - City of fatal shootings in a movie theater on Friday - just a few miles from the town of Littleton.

There happened at Columbine High School massacre probably the best known in America. On 20 April 1999 focused on two teenage carnage. A 17 - and 18-year-old killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and then shot himself 24 more students were injured.

The teenager allegedly owned by racist ideas then went from room to room and fired guns randomly at anything that moved. Most of their victims, they were in the cafeteria and library. After the massacre, police discovered more than 30 propane tanks that were converted into bombs. They should obviously all school buildings are blown up.

The act sparked a debate in the United States from the liberal gun laws. The Senate decided a few weeks later, prohibit the sale of semiautomatic weapons to minors.

The terrible event was also an opportunity for the weapon critical documentary "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003.




School shooting in AURORA AND THE WEAPONS LAW - COMMENT
America remains silent and pray


Flowers for the victims of the gunman in Aurora. Photo: DAPD
In the U.S., the probability of being shot, 40 times greater than in Canada, England or Germany. But even the youngest school shooting in a movie theater in Aurora with twelve dead will not change - because most politicians are afraid of the powerful gun lobby.

The reaction is always the same: shock, disbelief, sadness, prayers, repression. The first four phases of this reaction cycle by American politicians now running in a few hours. For the last phase, they need a few weeks. So it was after the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999, the massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007, the attack on the Congresswoman Gabby Gifford and her staff 2011th So it will again be the massacre in Aurora.

Rampage in the cinema - America mourns

President Barack Obama leaves as his challenger, Mitt Romney campaign and the rest of the place is indeed gone. Both want to sympathize with victims and their families, pray for them, offer assistance to the perpetrators to justice is applied. But they emphasize that this was no time for politics - as well as have formerly done almost all the politicians for such killings. It now would be the only right time to ask how it could come back to such a terrible act, and how to prevent it could be? Now listen to the nation.

During the lessons students solve two of the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, from fire alarm. Classified as classmates and teachers from the building, they opened fire. Five people died. The perpetrators are eleven and thirteen years old.
20th April 1999
The attack on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, is the most famous killing spree in America. Assault with firearms and explosives armed the 18-year-old Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, 17-year-old school. The perpetrators murdered twelve students, a teacher and set himself the tragedy triggers a debate in the United States from the liberal gun laws, which resulted in the Senate prohibits the sale of semi-automatic weapons to minors.
21st March 2005
At the Red Lake High School in the U.S. state of Minnesota is directed to a young person a bloodbath. After the 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and initially his partner, he stormed the school. In total, he killed nine people and himself
16th April 2007
On the campus of the University of Virginia in Blacksburg opened the 23-year-old South Korean Cho Seung-Hui fire. 32 people die in a hail of bullets, then the student kills self The massacre is one of the most serious consequences of an educational institution in the United States.
24th December 2008
Out of frustration over his divorce as a costumed Santa Claus man shoots at a ceremony in Los Angeles around. He killed nine people - including his ex-wife and her parents - and ultimately self directed
Third April 2009
In a center for immigrants in Binghamton, New York, an immigrant from Vietnam perpetrated a massacre. He killed 13 people and then committing suicide. Previously, he should have lost his job.
5th November 2009
In Texas, Fort Hood, the largest U.S. military base, the former military psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan and shoots 13 people injured 30 other sometimes difficult. The 39-year-old Major himself is seriously wounded in a shootout with security forces.
Second April 2012
A former pupil opened on a private university in Northern California's Oakland fire. Seven people die. Motive: The 43-year-old man was angry at an employee and former classmates.
30th May 2012
In the city of Seattle in Washington state shot Ian Lee Stawicki five people. The Fugitive commits suicide, the 40-year-old. He was said to be mentally retarded.
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But: If the U.S. politicians, the now seriously questioned, as they would have to answer consider that citizens come to light in weapons. Weapons such as assault rifles and pump guns. Weapons, which hurt many people in a short time and can kill. Weapons like the AR15 assault rifle, the bullets are shot with such a balancing out of the barrel that they can pierce multiple bodies. With such a gun the offender in Aurora has committed his bloody attack.

The politicians dare to approach the arms issue, but not because they are against the powerful gun lobby, the National Riffle Association (NRA), fear. It prevents long stricter gun laws. Their main argument is very simple: do not bring weapons to people, people kill people. Yes, it goes further. After each massacre - so this time - there is any representative of the gun lobby, who postulated that it would not been so many deaths, if one of the victims had been armed, and therefore could have defended. Actually, every American should always be armed.

Moreover, it would have wanted the Founding Fathers as if they guaranteed in any Second Amendment right to bear arms - at least in the opinion of the majority of Americans, and a judgment of the conservative Supreme Court in 2008. Since then, in politics almost any criticism of the current law is silent weapons. Only a few brave MPs like Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, non-partisan stand against the political mainstream and can not be guided by the fear of losing votes, they should want to regulate the possession of weapons restrictive. The rest is silent and pray. Or concerned with the motives of the individual offender. It's simple.

It is in the U.S., the probability of being shot 40 times greater than in Canada, England or Germany. More than 30 000 people die in America each year by firearms. In half of the households is at least one gun in a drawer somewhere, and even assault rifles in many states are readily available and completely legal. In addition, you can now easily order ammunition on the Internet, as did the shooter of Aurora. However, instead of banning the sale of assault rifles or other weapons that can deliver 100 shots in a row without reloading, conservative politicians are proposing that it be allowed to carry weapons in airports or kindergartens.