Donald Trump, the Republican tycoon and president of the United States, when writing his resume to nominate himself for the Nobel Peace Prize, confidently argued—even if it was not true—that he had "ended seven wars during his term in office."
However, he has said nothing and it does not even appear in his record that he has a major issue pending with the American people: gun control.
It would be a matter of proposing and achieving "an end to the internal war, in which thousands of Americans, mainly young people, die every year in mass shootings caused by the free possession of firearms by the population," according to Amnesty International.
Just a few facts, and we will have the picture that the U.S. president had to face in order to stop a war that kills hundreds of citizens every year.
Statistics show that between 2014 and 2022 alone, the death toll from gun violence exceeded 150,000 people, an average of 45 victims per day, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
On average, there are about 565 mass shootings per year, defined as armed incidents in which the shooter kills or injures at least four people.
In the United States, there are more than 400 million guns in the hands of a population that, in 2025, reached 347,275,807 inhabitants.
A simple mathematical calculation shows that there are more guns than people, or that for every 100 people there are 120 guns.
According to the Gallup poll, about 44% of American adults live in a household with a gun, and about one-third own one per person.
The average number of deaths from firearms is 18 times higher than in other developed countries.
This is the worst war, to which, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries in recent decades, must be added the high numbers of people maimed, traumatized, or imprisoned, in the case of the perpetrators of the shootings.
Among the most significant bloodshed that the American population cannot forget are the events in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, when an 18-year-old armed youth entered a grocery store in a predominantly Black community and killed ten people, wounding many more. Also in Uvalde, Texas, a young man of the same age entered an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers.
One of the latest shootings occurred this week in South Carolina, when a gunman killed four people and wounded 20 others at a bar where they were celebrating an event at the school they had graduated from.
Similarly, two children, aged eight and ten, were recently killed and 17 other people were injured in a shooting at a Catholic school church in Minneapolis. The attack occurred during morning mass at Annunciation School.
There are hundreds of incidents of this type, yet in none of them has the justice system taken action against those responsible for making guns the biggest business—and at the same time the greatest danger—in the United States.
The owners of gun businesses, who sell them regardless of how they are used, or, at the highest level, the representatives of the National Rifle Association and the military-industrial complex that manufacture and sell them without any control, feel protected by an amendment to the Constitution.
The document enshrines the right to bear arms, although it was adopted in a very different situation from the current one, at the end of the 18th century: "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."
