MADRID, 25 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the Republican minority of the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell, has avoided mentioning the ease with which anyone can access a firearm in the country and has resorted to his party’s mantra to justify tragedies like the one at the school of Uvalde as the work of a “maniac”.

“It is literally disgusting to think about the lives of innocent young people that have been senselessly stolen,” McConnell lamented in an emotional speech in the Senate, in which, however, he has overlooked the ease with which an 18-year-old years, Salvador Raimondo Ramos, was able to access a firearm.

McConnell has described what happened as the work of a “disturbed young man” and a “maniac”, thus resorting to the argument that his Republican colleagues have used to rule out any reform that restricts access to firearms in the least that supports the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

“The investigation is still ongoing. The authorities will continue to find out what exactly happened and how,” said McConnell, who beyond asking to pray for the injured and the families of the victims, has not said how the Republican Party intends to face these facts.

It was precisely this argument of the Republicans that was most attacked in this Wednesday’s session in the Senate by the Democrats, who have asked not to resort to the mental health of those who perpetrate these acts to settle the matter.

“Spare me that nonsense about mental illness. We don’t have more mental illness than any other country in the world. You can’t explain this through this prism,” said Senator Chris Murphy, who earlier literally begged Republicans to support reforms that can make such tragedies “less likely.”

Murphy explained that the United States is not an “outlier” when it comes to mental illness, but it is “in access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get them.”

Along these lines, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has criticized them for pointing out mental illness as a “true villain”, instead of addressing the fact that the United States is “a suffocated nation by firearms.”

“The United States does not stand out for having high rates of mental illness, but we are unique among the developed nations of the world in that today the leading cause of death among children is not a road accident, disease or malnutrition. , but firearms,” ??he stressed.