VRATI ME NA STRANU O LOVNOM EKOCIDU

Od Ričarda De Angelisa

Četiri škole, dvanaest mrtvih i četrdeset i četiri ranjena u samo sedam meseci od prošlog oktobra do maja.
Postajemo naviknuti na sliku dece koja jecaju, uplašenih roditelja i zanemelih dečaka iza rešetaka zatvora.
Svaki put kada se to desi, reporteri, roditelji, vaspitači i preživeli se pitaju "ZAŠTO?".

24. marta, 13-godišnji Mičel Džonson i 11-godišnji Endrju Golden pucali su u masu
okupljenu van srednje škole Jonesboro, u Arkanzasu.
Obučeni u kamuflažne uniforme, zauzeli su čeku u žbunju na brdu i
aktivirali protivpožarni alarm da istera njihov plen iz škole.
Za manje od 4 minuta, desetoro dece ležalo je na zemlji ranjeno,
zajedno sa četiri devojčice i učiteljem koji su ubijeni na mestu.

Dok su bežali, policija ih je uhvatila i oduzela od njih arsenal od devet pušaka.
Deda dečaka ubice je rekao policiji da je neposredno pred maskr dečak provalio u kuću
i uzeo četiri puške od kojih i najsmrtonosniju za lov na jelena.
Stojeći u svojoj kući prepunoj oružija i životinjskih trofeja (preparirane glave sa rogovima),
deda nije umeo da objasni šta je podstaklo u osnovi dobru decu da počine masakr.
Rekao je, za Asošieted Pres, da Andrju "zna da poštuje oružije i šta ono može."
Dokazujući da dečak zna šta oružije može, dodao je, "Ubio je prvu svoju patku ove godine."

ORIGINALNI TEKST

By
Richard De Angelis

Springfield, Oregon. . Jonesboro, Arkansas, Pearl, Mississippi. . West Paducah, Kentucky.

Four schools, twelve dead and forty-four wounded in just the seven months from last October to this May.
We are becoming accustomed to images of sobbing children, frightened parents, and silent boys
being hauled off to prison in shackles. And every t ime it happens reporters, parents, administrators
and survivors ask the same quest ion: “Why?”
On March 24 of this year, 13- year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden allegedly fired into a crowd gathering
outside the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Dressed in camouflage and waiting in ambush on a hill under cover of
brush, the two boys had reportedly set off a fire alarm to flush their prey from the building. In less than four minutes, ten children lay on
the ground wounded, along with four girls and a teacher who were shot dead.
Caught while fleeing the scene on foot, police took an arsenal of nine guns from the boys.
Afterwards, Doug Golden told authorities that his grandson had broken into his house immediately before the shooting and stolen three
of the weapons later confiscated by police, including his “deadly accurate” deer rifle. Standing in his home, surrounded by guns and
mounted antlers, Golden was at a loss to explain what could have influenced these basically good boys to go on such a murderous rampage.
As if to reassure people about his grandson’s sense of responsibility,
Golden told the Associated Press that Andrew “knows to respect guns, and he knows what they are.”
Proving that the boy also knows their purpose, he added, “He killed his first duck this year.”