Countries that were galvanized into action by mass shootings left staggered by U.S. inaction. 'This is such an obviously terrible and tragic problem and seems to have an obvious solution.”
China used the incident to bolster its narrative that the U.S. is a superpower in decline, deflecting criticism of its own human rights record. The U.S. is"beset by the most serious gun violence and social discrimination," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a daily briefing Wednesday. He called it unacceptable that"no substantive measures have been taken" to"tackle these problems.
When he speaks with academics abroad, they all ask him a similar question about the U.S.:"This is such an obviously terrible and tragic problem and seems to have an obvious solution — why can't they figure this out?" Lankford told NBC News by phone Wednesday.
Ian Blackford, a senior lawmaker with the Scottish National Party, referenced Dunblane in Parliament on Wednesday when he urged American lawmakers to"finally act to bring the scourge of gun violence that plagues the United States to an end." And most recently, when a white supremacist murdered 51 people in two New Zealand mosques in 2019, that government acted swiftly to ban almost all automatic and semi-automatic rifles.
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