Regarding Las Vegas mass shooting taking place on Sunday in the US, Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday that the shooting is an unwanted tragedy for all people around the world including Cambodia.
"Peace makes Cambodia a country full of opportunities. In contrast, different crisis happening in the Middle East, refugee crisis, and the yesterday-shooting in the US, all are unwanted tragedies for humanity including Cambodia," wrote the premier.
In the same way, Mr. Heng Ratana, Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), on Monday, wrote on his Facebook page to express his deepest condolences to the families of the victims from Las Vegas Shooting.
According to Mr. Ratana, the shooting could happen because anyone in the US has the right to own guns. As the result, the amount of guns legally owned by American people is more than 400 million. This number is a lot much more than American population due to the fact that the US law allows American people to own more than one gun.
However, to prevent gun owner from shooting and killing people, former US president Barack Obama signed many executive orders to check the background of gun-buyers, and to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. But Mr. Obama was unable to pass the new laws at the Congress.
To the new laws on gun control proposed by Mr. Obama, lawmakers from opposition party said that those executive actions contained no new laws or regulations; and they were not executive orders, which are different than executive actions.
"For all the pomp and ceremony, nothing in the president’s proposals is going to put a dent in U.S. gun crime or even substantially change the federal legal landscape. In that sense, apoplectic opponents and overjoyed supporters are both probably overreacting," wrote Adam Bates, a policy analyst, as reported by ThoughtCo, an online newspaper.
In the US, National Rifle Association (NRA) was always against Mr. Obama's reform on gun control. Moreover, they accused Mr. Obama for violating the Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the American Constitution that protects the right of American people to own guns. The Amendment II was adopted on December 15, 1791.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," read the Amendment II.
On the other hand, as reported by The Guardian, before leaving the White House, former president Barack Obama told reporters that gun reform is the last great civil rights challenge of his generation.
"Our inalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown," he said with tears in his eyes. "First-graders. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun."
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