Gun control idea in US pretty much dead: Analyst
At least 10 people have been shot, one of them fatally, in the crowded heart of New Orleans, Louisiana. The mass shooting took place Sunday, when unknown gunmen opened fire on people during the Bayou Classic Weekend, four days of events that include a parade and a college football game.
Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, believes the idea of gun control in the United States is “pretty much dead”, adding that it was never a factor in the presidential election.
“The issue in New Orleans is kind of a unique one. In the southern United States, gun ownership, gun laws have always been extremely relaxed. This area in New Orleans, this is typically weekend nights, this is a huge party. This is a wonderful city and there is a major police presence every three hundred feet on Bourbon Street and there would have been on that street four or five thousand people. So this is a crowd pretty much like an amusement park,” the analyst told Press TV.
“The issue we have with New Orleans is that you have a mix of tourists and only three blocks away, you have a public housing complex filled with narcotics dealers, crimes of all types that bleed into this area. And that is why there are so many police there. But in the US the discussions are dead. This is going to blow over again,” he added.
Duff further noted race hatred has always been a “political game” in the United States, arguing that it was the single greatest force in the November 8 election which people voted based on hatred of African-Americans and certainly Muslims.
He also opined that the media “manipulates” and “stirs up” hatred the same way the politicians do in the regions where no minorities live and are one hundred percent white.
Today, there are some 300 million firearms in private hands in the US, Columbia University researchers have found.
Statistics by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that firearms kill more than 33,000 people in the US every year, a number that includes accidental discharges, murders and suicides.
According to the website Gun Violence Archive, nearly 13,400 people have been killed as a result of over 51,000 gun-related incidents across America this year.
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