Houston, United States of America (USA)- The ongoing National Rifle Association (NRA) convention has created a lot of contention, especially amongst anti-gun protesters.
Thousands of protesters have gathered outside the George R. Brown Convention Center where the event is being held chanting, NRA go away!
Across the street, a group of children stood in silent protest, with the names and images of those killed at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday, hanging from their necks.
Nevertheless, former US President, Donald Trump, Texas Senator. Ted Cruz and South Dakota Governor. Kristi Noem has acknowledged the Uvalde shooting but signalled in their speeches that the Republican party is not willing to consider new gun restrictions.
“Inner-city schools rarely have these kinds of mass shootings. I didn’t know that until just recently. Think of that. They rarely have this problem despite being located in very tough neighbourhoods, in many cases where there are tremendous levels of high crime and violence. They are much more dangerous outside the school than inside. The reason is that for decades inner-city schools have had much stronger security measures in place in the school itself, including metal detectors and, yes, armed guards,” said Trump.
In addition, Cruz said the banning of guns doesn’t work citing that the problem is not with the ownership of guns.
“Gun bans do not work. Look at Chicago. If they worked, Chicago wouldn’t be the murder hellhole that it has been for far too long. As for so-called assault rifles, which the left and the media love to demonize, these guns were banned for 10 years from 1994 to 2004 and the Department of Justice examined the effect of the ban and concluded it had zero statistically significant effect on violent crime.
We know that there are no more guns per capita in this nation today than there were 50 or 100 years ago. That’s worth underscoring. In 1972, the rate of per capita gun ownership in the United States was 43 percent. In 2021, the rate is 42 percent. The rate of gun ownership hasn’t changed, and yet acts of evil like we saw this week are on the rise,” said the Senator.
