The annual convention of the NRA, the main American arms lobby, opened on Friday, May 27, in Houston, 450 kilometers from Uvalde, where an 18-year-old teenager killed nineteen children and two teachers, in a primary school, Tuesday, May 24. Former President Donald Trump again defended the Second Amendment there. So close to the drama, so little concerned. Thousands of people flocked to Houston (Texas), Friday, May 27, on the occasion of the annual convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the main American arms lobby. Three days after the killing in the primary school of Uvalde, 450 kilometers away, a form of gravity imposed itself on the participants, without influencing their convictions one notch. They celebrated their talisman, the controversial Second Amendment to the Constitution, protecting the right to be armed. Planned over three days, the program of the event is dense: a hunters' dinner, a law seminar, a forum for committed women, a vast exhibition hall with pis