US leaders unable to stop powerful gun industry: Researcher
The gun violence epidemic in the United States stems from a “very sick society” and confused leadership that tolerate a powerful gun industry and an unequal racist environment, a researcher and historian in Washington says.
“These things happen in a very sick society with a very confused head of state,” said Dr. Randy Short, a member of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization.
“This also blame goes around to the gun industry; blame goes around to the mental health industry,” Dr. Short said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
He added that America needs to recognize that “we are on a path to implosion, morally, ethically, economically, man against man, woman against man, nation against nation because this country has forgotten that there is something greater than money and nuclear weapons.”
Short said a disgruntled employee who carried out a deadly attack on two television journalists on Wednesday in Virginia suffered from various mental issues, including homosexuality and racial identity.
Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, killed colleagues Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, during a live broadcast.
US President Barack Obama said he is heartbroken over the deaths and argued that Americans are overly focused on terrorism at a time when more deaths are being caused by gun violence.
The United States is by far the global leader in mass shootings, with five percent of the world’s population but a 31 percent of the world's mass shooters since 1966, according to a new study.
The study suggests unprecedented gun ownership rates, an unhealthy obsession with fame and failure to achieve the so-called "American dream" has led to mass violence.
The United States ranks first in per-capita gun ownership among 178 countries that included in the new analysis.
There are approximately 270 million firearms in US civilian households, an ownership rate of 88.8 guns per 100 people, according to a 2007 survey.
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