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Episode 2 Young Mayor Chapter 68 Gun Control Speech

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    "Rex, do you still remember what I told you? You must be careful in your words and actions, especially on sensitive topics such as gun control. If you can not express your stance, it is best not to express your stance. Even if you express your stance, you must be vague"  Aaroni Saeki pulled Wang Lei aside and whispered to him.

    "Otherwise, no matter what you say, you will offend a lot of people."

    "I know!" Wang Lei hesitated for a moment. He also knew that the topic of gun control is very sensitive and there are cliffs before and after. No matter what he said today, people would find out his political stance in the future.

    Wang Lei looked back. From a distance, Joseph Sargent raised the wine glass in his hand and smiled at him.

    ¡°If Joseph Sargent shoots his next film in Braddock, it will be an excellent opportunity, and Wang Lei is not willing to give up.

    What¡¯s more, gun control is his real idea. The proliferation of guns is indeed too dangerous. He should make his own efforts for gun control instead of being a coward.

    If you hide your political stance for the sake of votes, that is the behavior of politicians.

    Wang Lei doesn¡¯t want to be a son-of-a-bitch politician, he wants to be a statesman.

    "Aloni, thank you for your kindness, but I think this is not a problem. I should express my true thoughts." Wang Lei made a decision. He asked Yaroni to help him arrange it. He wanted to go on the stage and express  Take your own stance and support gun control.

    "Well, I hope you won't regret it!" Yaroni tried to persuade Wang Lei to change his mind, but found that he was completely unmoved and had to give up this effort.

    Yaroni kept shaking his head. In his opinion, if Wang Lei was so impulsive, his political career would be over, and he would not have any big development prospects.

    It was in vain that he had been optimistic about it.

    Yaroni walked over to contact the organizer of the event and quickly received a positive response, especially Barbara Burns who seemed very happy. She and another ordinary-looking middle-aged woman came over and greeted Wang enthusiastically.  Ray said: "Rex, it's great that you are willing to stand up and support gun control. Let me introduce to you. This is Carolyn McCarthy, a member of the House of Representatives from Long Island, New York."

    Wang Lei was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the famous "Gun Lady" would also come. It seemed that this concert was not only raising money for Gore, but also people from the Gun Control Association were participating.

    Caroline McCarthy was one of the parties involved in the "Long Island Murder". She was not at the scene of the crime, but her husband was killed in the murder and her son was seriously injured and paralyzed.  You can imagine how heartbroken Caroline was at that time.

    At that time, Caroline was still a housewife and a part-time nurse in a clinic. She was silent and not good at talking.

    As a middle-class family, both Caroline and her husband were Republicans. However, in 1996, three years after the tragedy, the Republican Party sponsored a bill to repeal the gun control bill in Congress, and Caroline attended the hearing.  Will and oppose the repeal of gun control laws.

    The Republicans' bill failed to pass in the end, but Dan Frieza, the Republican congressman in Caroline's district, voted to repeal the gun control bill. Caroline felt angry because in a place where a shooting tragedy occurred, Frieza  Sa is opposed to gun control, which she simply cannot understand and accept.

    At that time, Frieza was running for re-election, and Caroline, a housewife, made a decision to kick this son-of-a-bitch congressman from his position.

    However, simply not voting for Frieza, or voting for his opponent, will not necessarily prevent Frieza from being re-elected. She only has one vote, not to mention that others in the Republican Party also have a negative attitude towards gun control.

    As for the Democratic Party, they have never had any advantage in this constituency.

    Caroline decided to stand up to stop Frieza and run for the House of Representatives, but local Republican officials did not support her. As a gun controller, she won the support of federal and local Democrats, and eventually defeated the Republicans and Frieza.  Sa, was elected to Congress.

    Since then, Caroline has been running around as a member of Congress to seek support for stricter gun control bills.

    "Rex, you are very brave. If everyone can be so responsible, then we will be able to control the proliferation of guns." Caroline shook hands with Wang Lei and said seriously.

    "Mrs. McCarthy, in order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, we can only do our meager strength." Wang Lei looked at Caroline McCarthy, she was a woman worthy of respect.

    After a brief introduction by Barbara Burns, Caroline McCarthy took the lead on the stage and began her speech. The theme was still "gun control": "Long Island six years ago, Columbine four months ago."  Well, a month ago in Georgia, we encountered each other again and again.It¡¯s a human tragedy, with gangsters armed with guns and massacring unarmed people"

    ¡°We can¡¯t help but ask, what happened?¡±

    ¡°The United States can lead the world, but why can¡¯t it make us feel safe?¡±

    Carolyn McCarthy's speech won rounds of applause, but there were also whistles and boos. Even supporters of the Democratic Party do not all support gun control. They always believe that holding guns is a right given to everyone by the Constitution.  should be subject to no control.

    Gun control involves not only interests, but also the gun culture that is deeply ingrained in the hearts of the American people.  There are less than 300 million people in the United States, almost every person owns a gun on average, and there are more than one million weapons shops.

    Americans advocate freedom, including the freedom to hold guns. They do not want to be controlled. They believe that the cause of mass shootings lies in the gun owners, not the guns.

    Guns are not guilty, people are guilty.

    It cannot be said that their remarks are unreasonable, so the controversy between the gun owners and the gun control groups has always existed, and no one can convince the other.

    After Carolyn McCarthy¡¯s speech, some Democrats, including two Barbaras, stood up to express their support for gun control.

    Wang Lei also stood in front of the microphone. He showed a forced smile and said solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy that I can still stand here and talk to you today."

    "As everyone knows, I was still a high school student. Four months ago, a mass shooting occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado. 12 students and a teacher were shot and killed by a gunman"

    "At that time, we all felt helpless and panicked. We were all thinking about which day the gunman would come to our school and shoot us unarmed one by one."

    Wang Lei made gun movements with his fingers and tapped his temples. His deep voice, as well as his identity and personal experience, made everyone seem to be immersed in the scene.

    When he mentioned the Columbine tragedy, even those who opposed gun control remained silent. That is out of respect for life.

    "Some people say that compared to the tens of thousands of schools in the United States, the probability of a school shooting is insignificant and no higher than walking on the road and letting an out-of-control Ferrari crash. We can't restrict others from driving Ferraris, just like  The same cannot be said about restricting the right to bear arms.¡±

    Wang Lei waved his hand violently and raised his voice: "They have forgotten that if the laws and regulations on driving and traffic were printed out on A4 paper, it would be enough to drown me standing here, but for the control of gun use, the passage of any bill  It all seems extremely difficult.¡±

    "Thirty thousand Americans are killed by guns every year, not by Iraqis, not Cubans, not North Koreans, not Iranians but by Americans themselves."

    Wang Lei's voice turned low: "If this is a war, the United States has already lost, worse than they lost in Korea and Vietnam. Our number of casualties even exceeds World War I, World War II, and the Civil War.  "

    ¡°This is the America of today, the America that we all love deeply.¡±

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