Daniel Defense, the maker of the assault rifle used Tuesday in the massacre of 19 children and two teaching staff at a Texas primary school, announced Thursday that it will not be participating in the annual lobby of the largest weapons lobby, which takes place Friday through Monday in Houston.
“Daniel Defense will not be attending the National Rifle Association (NRA) conference because of the horrific tragedy in Ovalde, Texas, where one of our products was criminally abused,” a spokeswoman for the agency told AFP.
“We think it would not be appropriate to promote our products this week at the NRA conference,” he explained.
Eight days before the massacre on Tuesday, May 16, the company had uploaded to its Twitter account – which has now been suspended by itself – an advertising message with the photo of a little white boy holding an assault rifle, with a full magazine. in front of him. Caption: “Educate a child to follow the right path, and when he grows up, he will not abandon him”.
Former United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that he will be present and address the NRA Congress in Houston, Texas.
He rejected, through Truth Social, the social networking site he founded, “politicians” and “partisan expediencies”, thus deliberately seeking to show his opposition to his successor, Democrat Joe Biden. , who, “disgusted and tired” of the country’s repeated massacres, wondered on Tuesday night, a few hours after the Ovalde massacre, “when, for God’s sake, will we stand tall in the arms lobby?” ».
The NRA, for its part, has denied any responsibility for the massacre, calling the Rob Rob Primary School massacre an “isolated and disruptive criminal” act.
The so-called mass shootings, the attacks with the use of firearms with four or more victims in the terminology of the American law enforcement services, are a scourge in the USA that the governments, one after the other, have proved powerless to face, as they are unable to promote any ambitious bill on the issue, mainly because of the power of the arms lobby in Congress.
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