# US no longer an ally

> US violence sales undercut peace holiday.
- Title: US no longer an ally · EUobserver | Shortify
- Summary: US violence sales undercut peace holiday. US retailers sell guns during Black Friday as violence escalates.
- Keywords: black friday, sandy hook, bushmaster, north carolina, oregon school shooting, child violence, politics, world, longer, ally, EUobserver
- Source: EUobserver — https://euobserver.com/243724/the-us-is-no-longer-an-ally-its-over
- Published: 2026-10-20T18:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: black friday, sandy hook, bushmaster, north carolina, oregon school shooting, child violence, politics, world
## Black Friday sale
US retailer sells a Bushmaster rifle for $549.99 [€490] during Black Friday sale.

> it was bullet proof
## Sandy Hook shooting
Bushmaster gun killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary school in 2012.

> a few years earlier, a bushmaster had been used to gun down 20 small children at sandy hook elementary
## Oregon school shooting
16-year-old shoots 5-year-old and two others with shotgun at Oregon school.

> last week, five-year-old rhom summer and two others, aged eight and eleven were shot dead at a school in oregon by a sixteen year old with a shotgun
## Key takeaway

US retailers sell guns during Black Friday as violence escalates.