Letters to the Editor: US gun laws allow mass murders

A law enforcement personnel lights a candle outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after the shooting tragedy. Picture: AP Photo/Jae C Hong

The 1791 Second Amendment to the United States Constitution allows its people to bear arms. This was deemed necessary at that time to ensure “the security of a free state”. Clearly it was never intended to facilitate the mass murder of its own citizens.

The incredible stubbornness of the American legislature will ensure that not only will America be “the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between” but will expedite its regression to barbarism.