It could have been a massacre, yet another in the United States. Similar to the one that shocked the whole world in 1999, when two students shot to kill 12 classmates and a professor at the Columbine school. Twenty-two years later, two other students from a middle school in Florida were arrested on suspicion of planning a mass shooting, a mass shooting. The two boys, aged 14 and 13, attended Harns Marsh Middle School, in Lee County, just a couple of hours away from Parkland High School, the scene of the 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed. But more than the attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the two boys had studied the one that took place 22 years ago in Colorado, shot by director Michael Moore in his famous documentary Bowling a Columbine, which denounced the free sale of firearms in the United States. .
The two were arrested last week and transferred to a juvenile prison after they had repeatedly expressed their intention to carry out a massacre. Police intervened when a teacher expressed concern that one of the two was armed, but no weapons were found in the school. But the students had downloaded a map of the school, searched the Internet for the purchase of weapons on the black market and the construction of rudimentary devices.
Congressional police arrest a man with a machete near Capitol Hill
Meanwhile, fear also in the capital, where a forty-four-year-old originally from Oceanside (California), was stopped in the night driving a pick-up: in the middle a swastika and other supremacist symbols were painted and where numerous knives were found, as well as bayonet and machete. The patrol had noticed that the vehicle did not have a license plate but a photo of an American flag.