The head of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives says that they are afraid that a drumbet of large -scale firing and other gun violence across the United States may numb Americans for bloodshed, which may promote indifference to find solutions instead of communities.
The comments of director Steve Detelbac for The Associated Press came after the last week, who were killed in a bowling ale with family members of some of the 18 people killed in October and once in Leviston, once, Men made his life once by an American army reserves, which later killed.
He said that people should not accept that gun violence is a popular part of American life.
“It seems to me that the things we used to consider memorable, life-trans-demonstrated, shocking events, which you can think about and now talk about months or years, which is now happening with the coming frequency, which makes it so that we think in this way,” This is the only one that has happened this week, “they said.” Is obstructed. “
Dettelbach, whose agency is responsible for implementing the country’s gun laws, met for about two hours at the Central Main Community College, who was killed and with relatives of the survivors of Leviston shooting. An AP reporter along with law enforcement officers also participated.
Some people expressed disappointment about the missed red flag and questioned why the gunman was able to get the weapon he used. Dettelbach told his audience that they could be a powerful catalyst for change.
“I am sorry that we have to stay in a place where we have to have these terrible tragedies to pay attention to the people, but they have to pay attention,” said Detailback. “I can go around and talk, but your voice is very important and powerful voices. So if you choose to use them, then you should understand that it makes a difference. It really makes a difference.”
The people met with Detailback included the Main’s Close-Burit community’s deaf and members of the hard of hearing people who lost four people at a bowling street on 25 October and four people at a time.
Megan Wajela, whose husband, was killed, was killed through ASL interpreter that the shooting outlines the need for law enforcement to improve communication with members of the Bahri community. He said that they feel out of the loop after shooting.
“We do nothing at this point, will bring back my husband and other victims,” Wogela said in an interview after the meeting. “It harms my heart to talk about it and so learning more about it every day, my only hope is that it can improve for the future.”
There are questions about this, neither the local law enforcement nor the army intervened to remove weapons from the shooter, Robert card, despite its deteriorating mental health. In the police body cam video released to the media this month, the card told New York soldiers before being hospitalized in the last summer that fellow soldiers were worried about him because he was “going to do anything.”
In the AP interview, Detailbatch refused to comment on the nuances of the card case, which is investigating an independent commission in the main. But he said that it is clear that the nation needs to make it difficult for the people “that everyone agrees that there should not be firearms, which the law says that the laws are not entitled to firearms, to get them because they are very easy to get now.”
Detelbac’s conversation with the victims was part of a tour in New England, including law enforcement and meetings with others to discuss ways to deal with gun violence. Dettelbach, who expressed support to investigate the universal background and banned the weapons of the so -called attack, said he regularly meets people affected by gun violence.
“Each of these shoots is a tragedy that takes life and changes life forever. And whether it makes this news or not, whether it is a child’s suicide or a drive in the city, whether it is a massacre in a parade, a spray bullets on a metro, whether it is a person who kills his family, kills Murds police “or a student with a rifle” is shooting for his school, “he said during a speech on Wednesday.
“I present you that as Americans it is our patriotic duty to answer, to think about these people, for your back, look at this difficult news as a call for action.”