A notícia que mais me chocou sobre o massacre americano foi essa notícia, que li no Globo, reproduzindo a opinião do jornal americano The New York Sun sobre o (des)controle de armas nos Estados Unidos. Fui ler o original e reproduzo aqui trecho do editorial do jornal:Imagino se essa "pérola" do direitismo americano estivesse em vigor, ontem, nas ruas do Rio de Janeiro, com todo mundo armado em batalha campal no Morro da Mineira. Em vez de 13 mortos, teríamos mais de 130! (sem contar os mortos do Cemitério do Catumbi que serviu de cenário...)Today, however, the question hanging over this tragedy is whether the legislature acted wisely or whether, in fact, the campus would have been safer had the students and others been permitted to keep and bear arms in the dorms and on the greenswards. It's not a theoretical question. In 2002, according to a report on CNSNews.com, a disgruntled student at the Appalachian Law School, Peter Odighizuwa, allegedly shot and killed the school's dean, a professor, and a student on campus. He was subdued, CNSNews.comreported, only when two students reportedly ran to their cars to fetch their own guns and returned to confront the killer, who surrendered.
(...) But we do believe that Americans have the capacity to reason out their own choices about how to defend themselves. And to reach out in their thoughts and prayers to the families who lost loved ones on the campus of Virginia Tech.
