Il Financial Times, the UK's leading economic-financial newspaper (as well as one of the oldest in the world), interviewed Franco Gussalli Beretta, number one of the historic arms factory. In addition to focusing on the history of the company and on private life, it was an opportunity to deepen the issue of shootings and the use of guns and rifles, with particular reference to the United States.
Beretta stressed that arms manufacturers have no responsibility for these bloody facts, also because "the group's philosophy is that each people of a democratic country can choose what is best to do in its territory". The company of Gardone Val Trompia, therefore, it would just follow the rules. According to the president, in Europe there are countries with higher weapon densities than America, such as for example in Finland and SwitzerlandThere is nothing alarming in the Scandinavian and Swiss nations.
Beretta he also added that the shootings are more of a psychological problem, citing the words of the US president Barack Obama"It is easy to understand how a weapon is something dangerous in the hands of those who have not assimilated the right culture, but in the hands of those who are familiar with weapons and have no mental problems it turns into something normal". The interview ended with a nod to the recent opening of the plant in Tennessee: the president of the Lombard company explained how the factory in Maryland was in the wrong place, while the South with the Stars and Stripes can be considered the ideal area.