Bloody weekend in Texas, two massacres in a few hours and as many as 15 dead .
First a shooting in a mall, then pedestrians deliberately run over.
A Saturday afternoon with family and friends among the outlet stores in Allen, on the outskirts of Dallas , turned into a nightmare for thousands of people. Eight dead and nine injured , including children involved, by a killer in military gear and armed with an automatic rifle who suddenly opened fire before being killed by a policeman who avoided an even heavier toll. The killer is Mauricio Garcia , 33, a supremacist and neo-Nazi who wore a T-shirt with the initials 'Right wing death squad'. He had many other weapons in the car.
Garcia got out of his gray car in the mall parking lot, raised his weapon and started shooting at the crowd, exploding at least 60 shots . Images on social media document the panic of hundreds of people fleeing or seeking refuge.
A few hours later in the south, in the city of Brownsville on the border with Mexico, an SUV driven by a Hispanic man deliberately overwhelmed 13 people outside a migrant center, killing seven of them, mostly Venezuelans . All mowed down outside one of the largest reception centers in the state, the Ozanam Centre. The man was arrested.
Joe Biden also intervened on the massacre at the shopping center: «Foolless act, once again I ask Congress to pass a law that bans assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and imposes background checks on those who want to buy another ».
It's only May, there have already been over 200 mass shootings in the United States since the beginning of the year. Greg Abbott, Republican governor of one of the most permissive states on weapons, spoke of an "indescribable tragedy" but did not mention stricter controls on people and stringent limits.
(Unioneonline/L)