Armed to the teeth. Many of America's homes are an arsenal.
When there are analysts who warn about a possible civil war –especially since the radicalization of Trumpism, with its contempt for democracy and the appeal to violence–, that is a fact that they keep in mind.
It is estimated that there are around 400 million guns in the US. And the country is in the midst of an expansion of this production. According to the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives, manufacturers manufactured 11.3 million in 2020, 187% more than the 3.9 million in 2000.
The end of the assault weapons ban in 2004 is one of the influential factors. The popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle is present in most of the killings, such as the one that occurred in Buffalo on Saturday.
In that report, in addition, it is verified that the police recovered 19,344 homemade weapons, the so-called ghost pistols, whose trail is impossible to follow.
The buyers have in their favor that the Supreme Court, controlled by conservative judges, relaxes the restrictions, while the Republicans in Congress and in the states they control prevent any regulation of control of the sale.
This situation leads to laziness. Buffalo gunman Payton Gendron was able to buy an AR-15 when alarm bells should have been going off.
Having undergone a psychiatric review in June 2021, after threatening a suicidal massacre at his institute, he was banned. But nothing happened, nobody detected it.
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