a shock campaign against shootings

A shock video published Wednesday, September 19 is controversial, it is about a small film on shootings in the schools, with a humorous tone. A chilling and disturbing video that at first looks like an ad for essential back to school products. We see teens in a college or high school, boast their new backpack, their new binder …

In the background understands thatSomething is happeningpeople start running, barricading themselves, breaking windows to escape. One of the students is happy to have new shoes that allow him to escape into a corridor. Two teens hold their new scissors and crayons like weapons, behind a door. The new sports socks are used to to make tourniquets on a wounded comrade.

The tone is more and more serious, until the camera arrives on the face of a hidden girl, in the cabinets, she shows her new phone with which she sends a text message to her mother to tell him that She loves him. With tears in her eyes, she whispers. We hear someone open the door, to walk with a heavy step towards her, and we understand that she will be shot.

A shocking campaign

It was designed to make an impression, by an organization created by parents of victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newton in 2012. Twenty children aged 6 and 7 had been shot.

The campaign was featured in one of the most watched morning shows yesterday morning at prime time. On social networks many people find this video tasteless, think it goes too far. There is a limit between the provocation to hit the spirits, and a staging that traumatizes parents and children.

Others, on the other hand, say that what is shocking is not this short film but the reality it describes. In the United States, students make shootout simulations before learning to read. Supermarkets are selling backpacks and bulletproof school bags. Since the massacre in Columbine High School 20 years ago, 228,000 American students have experienced mass shootings at their facility.

Subject of controversy

And yet, it is a subject of political controversy between Democrats and Republicans, or even within the Democratic Party, in the framework of the primary for the presidential election.

Last week during a televised debate, the candidate Beto O Rourke, who comes from Texas, from El Paso where a slaughter took place last month, warned that if he were elected, he would force gun owners assault to surrender their weapons against compensation. Weapons of war, it is estimated that there are about ten million in circulation

It's a "moron" tweeted Trump. And other Democratic candidates think it's a very bad idea to promise this confiscation, because it will scare moderate voters.

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