Texas Elementary School Shooting Kills 19 Students, Denny Siregar Praises Indonesia's 1st President Suharto

Social media activist Denny Siregar. (Instagram @dennysiregar)

JAKARTA - Social media activist Denny Siregar praised Suharto's policy when he became Indonesia's 1st President forbidding civilians from owning firearms.

According to him, if there is no such policy in the country, then citizens will have the opportunity to vote for firearms.

Deny's praise began when he uploaded news of the shooting incident at Robb's elementary school (SD) in South Texas, United States, which occurred yesterday. In that bloody incident, 21 people died, 19 of them were children.

"It's crazy America. It hasn't been a month since the racial shootings at the supermarkets have occurred, there are already new cases," commented Denny on his Twitter account, @Dennysiregar7, Wednesday, May 25.

Denny then highlighted the policy of illegal possession of firearms in Uncle Sam's country as well as in Indonesia. Had it not been for Suharto's services, he said, people in the country could feel the terror of shootings in a number of public places carried out by civilians like the incident in Texas yesterday.

"One of Suharto's best legacies until now is that firearms are strictly prohibited from being owned by civilians," he said.

According to Denny, many Indonesian people still do not have strong mental characteristics so that their emotional intelligence is relatively low. Therefore, he continued, it could be bad if given the right to own a firearm.

"Imagine with this fragile mentality, civilians hold firearms. We can be worse than America," he said.

Yesterday's shooting incident with a suspect, a teenage boy who also died, is not the first time that has occurred at Robb Texas Elementary School. CNN International noted that there were 38 shooting incidents at schools and universities in the US from 2022 to Wednesday, May 25.