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In the long weekend of Memorial Day – which is celebrated today and was celebrated for the first time (as Decoration Day) three years after the end of the Civil War – the debate on gun control divides the States of America, less and less united, along a line that is both geographical and political. The emotion and the tears for the massacre of children in Texas, in the political world and in social networks have already given way – after only five days – to old controversies, electoral calculations and futile distinctions.