New Year's Day Thinking About Gun Culture and America's Insecurity

On New Year's Day, America was shocked when all media channels and newspapers simultaneously reported on several consecutive terrorist attacks that caused many innocent people to lose their lives.

The scene of a truck crashing into a crowd on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. (Source: CNN)

Early on the morning of January 1 (US time), a truck drove at high speed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana (US). According to local police immediately after the incident, 10 people were confirmed dead and 30 others were injured.

At midnight on the first day of 2025, a shooting outside a nightclub in New York City as young people were waiting to attend a private event also left 10 people injured...

And many similar heartbreaking incidents seem to be "everyday" in the land of the stars and stripes.

On the front page of The Wall Street Journal was the headline: "This was evil's." Yes. "This was evil." "This was evil." "This was crime."

On this Earth, the world of people living in the first days of the New Year of a quarter of the 21st century - the world of science and civilization. But behind that, there are still black holes of international terrorist crimes.

America, like other countries on this planet, always tries to eliminate evil, wickedness, and crime... However, it cannot be completely eliminated. Especially in a country with a gun culture like America, it is extremely difficult.

For the sake of gun freedom, America has created conditions for international terrorist organizations and domestic extremists to collude against innocent people.

We can talk about the good things about “A Great America…”. But we can’t even begin to describe the problems America faces.

Like every nation on Earth, America is imperfect and has many imperfections.

As I am writing these lines, CNN is reporting that President Joe Biden is giving a speech expressing condolences and denouncing the crimes of criminals that need to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Gun culture is a scourge that kills many people every year in America. Yet, for nearly 250 years, Congress has been unable to abolish gun control many times due to political divisions.

It is a vice that makes America imperfect in the eyes of the world .

I have looked back over the past 250 years of America through historical moments to explain to myself why America has developed so quickly and the events that have made America imperfect in the eyes of the world. Safety for its people is a dream goal of all nations. But this goal in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural country that shares the same prosperous roof as America is not easy. Indeed, America has not only had recent events but the American people have also experienced many ups and downs in their present and past lives.

We cannot know the timeline of what makes America great and what makes America imperfect. But one thing is that every step of development of every country has gone through historical ups and downs. America is no different.

Talking to colleagues about the recent events that America has experienced, they said: "International terrorist organizations are the root cause of crimes in this world, not just in America.

Humanity is witnessing these crimes happening somewhere in the world every day. Nations should live together in peace and always be vigilant to eliminate evil. Only then can we hope for a better future for the world.

And these will be the challenges ahead awaiting the new term of the incoming President-elect - President Donald Trump.

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