Opinion: The ruling politicians in Texas have engaged in tail-chasing responses to the Uvalde mass shooting.
Hundreds gathered at City Hall on Saturday to rally for gun reform in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting.As the last of the little boys and girls are buried and mourned in Uvalde, and families are left to their inconsolable private grief, we who stand outraged by yet another senseless and preventable mass shooting will mark time until the next killing.
Gov. Greg Abbott wants a state education safety director and lots of campus inspections. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants tens of millions of dollars spent on bulletproof shields, and recommends a single door manned by an armed guard at each school campus. What Republican politicians in Austin are not willing to acknowledge is that new laws should be passed to prevent people like Ramos from walking into gun stores and buying assault weapons, large capacity magazines, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
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