Gun violence in US and still no better laws | DW English DW News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcxN9ZrpTU Transkript (automatisch erstellt) 0:00 an increasingly common scene in the United States makeshift memorials for victims of a mass shooting this time at Santa Fe High School in Texas there are 0:11 prayers for the eight students and two teachers who lost their lives but amid a nationwide debate over how to stop such massacres this community thinks it's not 0:21 about guns and most say stricter controls are off the table I think right now what I just really want to focus on is is this this city healing I don't I 0:32 don't have the quick answers for this I don't know that anybody does mm-hmm knowing our town probably not they think our gun laws are good the way they are a 0:40 lot of things it just needs to be seen for the bigger patient and what it is and not these political reasonings that all these people keep bringing up about 0:48 these guns an inanimate object doesn't have a minor thing go in its own person does no other developed country in the world comes close to the levels of gun 0:58 violence in the United States but many in Santa Fe believe it's not gun legislation but society that's broken Texas has some of the most relaxed gun 1:07 laws in the country but many here don't feel that changing that would help prevent tragedies like the massacre that took place at Santa Fe High School the 1:14 response stands in stark contrast to the student-led activism that arose after a shooting in parkland Florida but it represents attitudes in many parts of 1:22 the United States that guns are not the problem 16 year old Marcel McClinton is trying to find a way to connect with communities like Santa Fe he is also a 1:32 mass shooting survivor two years ago a man opened fire at his church he says sharing that grief is a first step to bridging the divide how can 1:42 March for our lives how can people who agree with gun reform reach rural conservative communities in a way that doesn't offend them that isn't you know 1:50 that speaks to them it's the unanswered question that has left so many students traumatized and others fearing that they won't live to see graduation