All Lives Matter!

All Lives Matter!

By: Erreh Svaia

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Another horrific shooting happens in USA soil, no, it’s not radical Muslim as Donald Trump dreams, again it is a USA citizen, just a couple of weeks ago we were shocked by a shooting occurred at a gay disco in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump was quick to announce that he after all was right, that radical Islam was a real threat to USA and that he was the one to defend society and the LGBT community by banning USA entrance of Muslim, as it was expected, TRUMP WAS WRONG, the responsible for the massacre in Florida was a homophobic USA citizen, who worked as a security agent in a private firm, the attacker favorite weapon was an AR-15, massive  murderers´ weapon of choice, the killer was being  followed already by the FBI, but he was able to buy guns and perform the attack anyway.

Now is the turn of Texas, another southern state, where 5 policemen were killed and 7 more were injured, as in the middle of a protest against police violence towards two afro American people, was the scenario for another shooting, this time, an afro American, USA citizen, member of the army, as the sniper who shot and murdered 5 policemen, Micah Xavier Johnson, 25 years old and expert in rifles manifested that he wanted to kill white policemen, that he was angry at the way police was treating black people, murdering white cops was his goal, this time Donald Trump remained quiet, the killer was an American, the killer was not a Muslim, Johnson was a man who had an arsenal at home, thanks to the authorization of the National Rifle Association, who gave their support to Donald Trump´s campaign.

The reality for Donald Trump after the Orlando shooting was that if the people at the gay disco club Impulse would have been armed, the attack could have been repelled by themselves, how bad for Trump, as his logic quickly went down, arming civilians can't be the solution considering the fact that this time it was 5 cops, 5 armed cops who weren't able to repel the attack against them, by a sniper who wanted to kill white policemen, and perhaps here, we can assure that the antagonistic rhetoric of Trump is starting to ignite racial tensions within the country.

Johnson accomplished his feat, he killed 5 cops and then in a police reaction was killed, again the full story won't be told, but for Trump, the NRA and the government of the USA, THIS is what happens, not when people are disarmed, but when people are allowed to buy weapons without a proper regulation that restrict suspicious or unfit people to buy a gun, you can be armed to the teeth, and you can be an honest and responsible civilian, but not even a gun, or a couple of them will protect you for someone who is troubled within his mind or that has been manipulated by hate rhetoric, this might be the critical time for Obama to do something that really can leave a deep mark, Trump remained silent, he knows that this time, his rhetoric can backlash against him, but something must be done, something must be done before racial tension starts to escalade, and we don’t have too much time.