How is violence marring the US presidential campaign? Ask our editorialist your questions

Hello, gun violence is high in the United States, that is a fact, aggravated by the number of weapons in circulation, a real epidemic that extends even to countries close to the United States. Still. For years we have witnessed a worrying increase in the acceptance of violence in politics. An atmospheric violence that Donald Trump has continued to fuel. We must remember that already in 2016 he could say of his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton: “ If she chooses her judges, you won’t be able to do anything. Although with the second amendment [qui sanctuarise l’accès aux armes]– Maybe there is a solution, I don’t know. “By playing on the unsaid, the suggested, the implicit, Donald Trump fueled incendiary speeches that led in particular to the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. Polls continue to show that a growing minority of Republicans consider violence acceptable in response to the situation in the United States, to which is now added a much smaller but real minority of Democrats who are viscerally hostile to the former businessman, as demonstrated by the frustrated attempt to assassinate him on September 15.