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Wednesday, 14 November 2018
As long every bit the U.S. pretend to last a frontier province nether threat to last recolonised yesteryear Her Majesty's troops, in that place volition last regular volume shootings similar the ane inwards Florida. For a European, the logic of the 2nd Amendment is already hard to grasp. But what really surprised me, is the photos y'all uncovering on the president's Instagram account.

I'm non an Instagram regular. But Spiegel Online [article, inwards German] made me click on a photoseries constitute on Trumpelchen's Instagram account. And what y'all tin uncovering there, gives y'all a real ambivalent feeling close the well-known American optimism inwards night hours.


What happened?

It's xvi years since Bowling for Columbine opened the eyes of many people on this side of the non bad lake for America's unhealthy obsession for guns of all sorts. It's been xv years since my terminal see to the States (for a friend's wedding, brand a chip of the "German Loop", together with see my relatives). Part of Nebraskan wedding-time amusement for the German linguistic communication guests (and merely about west-coast liberals) was – naturally – shooting on cans together with clay-pidgeons (county amongst c. 120%, no kidding, of the electorate voting for the together with so worst-ever president, Bush the Younger). Since then, I know ordinary people (like together with including myself) shouldn't ain guns for fun.
 
I also vividly call back the information signs at the security check-in (domestic flights) at Omaha airdrome informing us that it is "now" (that was nearly 2 years after 9/11 attacks) prohibited to comport (unloaded) guns inwards your hand-luggage, together with that they should become into the checked-in luggage. Yes. The checked-in luggage. No ane questioned the demand to accept guns amongst y'all when y'all wing from ane identify inwards the U.S. to merely about other at all (not the alone affair inwards Nebraska that made us doubtfulness beingness inwards a solid ground of the kickoff world). I can't halt wondering how many of the people that travelled amongst me betwixt Stockholm, Paris together with Vienna, e'er idea of checking inwards a gun every bit a normal affair to do. And nosotros conduct hold a lot of hunting enthusiasts, too.

Now, a in all probability disaffected, perhaps chip insane (to a yet unknown degree) pocket-size fry killed over again 17 pupils and, business-as-usual, the NRA-funded political course of pedagogy engages inwards prayers together with good wishes, rather than to adopt the American constitution to the 20th century (yes, 20th, would already last a stride forward).


A genuinely 'unpresidented' reaction

And the sitting U.S. president react the same every bit usual. He thank y'all the quick responders for their great/tremendous work, together with "great".

Being geschmackslos (see here for translation) is his mo name, something his fans consider refreshing unpolitical correctness. No, it's not, it's merely stupidity peppered yesteryear ignorance.

It comes every bit no surprise that Barack Obama, a existent (former) president, reacts similar this ...

... together with the orange-billionaire impersonating a president tweets photos of himself amongst a victim together with her identify unit of measurement smiling into the camera.
Already these photos are profoundly disturbing. The U.S. president (POTUS) amongst his married adult woman (FLOTUS) posing at a victims' bed smiling similar he really won the pop vote, together with boosting a "well-done" thumb-up inwards midths of a grouping of manifestly real happy infirmary staff. But well, he's an idiot (no overnice agency to set it), y'all would non await anything else from him. His standards are the lowest possible.

But what is incorrect amongst the victim's identify unit of measurement together with the infirmary staff posing on these photos? You don't smiling inwards the photographic idiot box camera for a presidential line-up photo, when 17 kids died because of medivial-style legislation (in civilised countries, the province ensures safety, non a gun nether your pillow). It's non similar merely about rich billionaire saved your fille yesteryear paying for a life-saving treatment, y'all could non provide, since y'all alive inwards the alone high-developed solid ground without universal wellness care.
You may last relieved (and real happy) that she was alone shot together with did non die. But, y'all unremarkably would conduct hold the decency (and compassion) to non openly boost your happiness, when in that place are others lost inwards grief. And the natural follow-up reaction would last anger that your pocket-size fry was shot at all because y'all alive inwards a pretty gun-crazy country.

The total photograph series
On Instragramm, y'all tin uncovering the 4 tweeted photos together with more, pretty strange iconography. Be assured, beau Americans, Trumpelchen and his management is "hear for you" together with tries to "learn everything [they] can" (that'd last either a lot, 'cause y'all look to know little, or little, 'cause it's hard to learn an old, somewhat unruly man).


As a German linguistic communication amongst grandparents (born inwards the 1910's) indoctrinated yesteryear Nazi ideology, I acquire a niggling shake running downward my neck, when I read inwards this context "... tackle the hard resultant of mental health". Just a thought: Why non merely tackle the much simpler resultant of selling guns together with ammo to everyone. and unique inwards the western world – facet of the U.S., emigrate to Canada, Commonwealth of Australia (they also beak English, a dissimilar sort, but you'll acquire used to it) or come upwards (back) to Europe. Kingdom of Norway may last a proficient choice; most Scandinavians beak English linguistic communication (TV serial together with films are non dubbed), together with inwards the Scandinavian countryside non few conduct hold together with are allowed to conduct hold firearms. It's nearly similar home, alone that it is real safe, because the province controls a lot together with people rely on it.

Yes, nosotros conduct hold terroristic attacks here, every bit good (more people died, however, inwards the 80s/90s than now), together with rarely amok runs (not few Europeans ain legally pistols together with hunting rifles). We conduct hold weapon-crazy people, every bit good (stockpiling illegal, automatic guns, inwards Austria, France, Germany, Spain, ... merely search for "Waffenlager entdeckt"). But in that place is no NRA telling us that arming everyone volition brand alive to a greater extent than secure. Restricting access to weapons does (see Australia). And y'all can't purchase semi-automatic guns or similar prepare-for-civil-war gimmicks inwards a liquor shop.


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Some farther reading/viewing

And merely inwards representative y'all forgot close it: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Brief History of the United States every bit seen inwards Bowling for Columbine. With the comments instantly starting to pop-up, it strikes me that real niggling has changed.

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