With the terrible faculty capturing at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, Republican lawmakers are in fact fast to supply prayers and vacuous condolences to the 4th-grade victims and their households. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and different high state politicos like Senator Ted Cruz are placing on their frowny empathetic faces . . . however not for too lengthy!
On Friday a number of complicit politicians with blood on their palms are scheduled to talk on the annual Nationwide Rifle Affiliation conference in Houston. I’m certain their speeches will likely be full of venom directed at these evil Democrats who they’ll accuse of politicizing a tragic capturing. The Republicans will blame the shooter’s psychological well being. They’ll name for arming lecturers and constructing . . . “man traps?”
They’ll counsel nearly every part aside from legal guidelines that forestall civilians in america from having quick access to weapons of warfare. The issue isn’t the weapons, they’ll say, the college ought to have constructed a moat to decelerate any attackers.
Let’s hope some of the surprising mass shootings that killed 19 kids will result in a public revolt that can — simply perhaps — trigger recalcitrant Republican lawmakers to grudgingly be a part of with Democrats to really do one thing this time round.
