In the history of today's major disaster | Guatemala football stadium tragic murder in the United States town killed 22 people

I. Guatemala Football Stadium Massacre

Guatemala Football Stadium Massacre

1996, October 16 at 8 pm, the capital of Guatemala City, Guatemala flower Mateo stadium will hold a Guatemala team qualifier against Costa Rica in the 1998 World Cup North, Central America and the Caribbean. Before the start, due to the excess of the organizers of the game sold 10,000 tickets the venue caused confusion. The audience was crowded and stamped on each other, killing more than 80 people and injuring more than 300 people. After the tragedy, the stadium is ready to watch the ball game Guatemalan President Alvaro - immediately went to midfielder Arzu proposal audience observed a minute. Subsequently, President Alsu announced that the country mourned for three days and canceled the game.

2. 22 Killed in American Town Shots

October 16, 1991, in a small town of 60,000 residents in Killeen, Texas, to the shootings appalling cases together, 22 people Yindanshenwang, more than 20 people were injured.

Witnesses said that at noon, a man drove a small truck, smashed the glass doors and windows of a small restaurant, and used semi-automatic pistols to fire at the dining customers, causing a vicious bloody incident. The police claimed that the perpetrators shot and committed suicide in the restrooms of the restaurant afterwards. The motive was unknown. The murderer named George Hennard, 35 , was a freighter seafarer and is now unemployed.

This is one of the most deadly shootings in the history of the United States. The gunfire in the town shocked the country.

On the second day of the incident, the House of Representatives debated the anti-crime bill. One of the clauses happened to be related to gun control. This article stipulates that it is forbidden to sell and possess 13 kinds of "attacking firearms" and the kind of "ballistic cartridges with more than 7 rounds" used by the murderers. However, during the debate, the two parliamentarians who held opposing views argued over whether to prohibit privately owned semi-automatic firearms. Members opposed to gun control believe that this clause is meaningless and cannot prevent the occurrence of homicide cases. They accused the other party of infringing on the individual’s “right to carry firearms”. Proponents of gun control retorted the former's connivance of drug traffickers and other criminals and "turned city streets into dangerous zones."

In the face of the just-run shootings, Chet Edwards, a member of the Texas State Council, changed his position and turned to support gun control. He appealed to his colleagues: Don't let the tragedy that happened in our area yesterday repeat itself tomorrow. He asked parliamentarians to vote in favour of gun control and protect others from drug abusers.

However, the House of Representatives still rejected the clause prohibiting private ownership of semi-automatic firearms with a majority of 247 to 177 votes. It is not the first time that the debate on the gun control in the United States Congress has come to an end. The main reason is that the “National Rifle Association”, a powerful group of anti-gun-control external groups, has obstructed it. There are many American political leaders in this group.

The person who "guns the gun violence alliance" said angrily that this was a disgraceful vote. It is hard to imagine that lawmakers are so insensitive to the innocent victims who have been shot dead on the streets.

The proliferation of firearms in American society far more than other Western countries, it combines with other social problems lead to crime, resulting in many towns homicide cases continue to rise, as October 16 that the vicious bloodshed also occur. A television station in the United States calls this phenomenon the "American phenomenon." It seems that it is very difficult to find a solution to this social problem.

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