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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
Maybe state level is the place to work.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...4cbeaa96037bc0bb0a1b

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
Maybe state level is the place to work.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...4cbeaa96037bc0bb0a1b

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:
Ummm... Huffpo? Ummmm... yikes? Not the most comforting image after a school shooting.




https://www.huffpost.com/entry...8fcde4b0edd2d0209e00

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Immediately after the Uvalde massacre, most Texas Republicans retreated to their familiar position that stricter gun laws wouldn’t stop such mass shootings from happening again.

But the pain, anguish and anger over 19 elementary school students and two teachers being slaughtered by an 18-year-old man spraying ammunition from an assault-style weapon could — at long last — force Texas Republican lawmakers reconsider their opposition to common-sense measures to protect residents from gun violence, not take away their Second Amendment rights.

“The massacre of young children puts a completely different focus on this issue that it hasn’t received before,” said Republican political consultant and lobbyist Bill Miller. “There are times in our nation’s history, or any kind of political times, when certain incidents change the course of history. This moment has the potential to change the course of history.”

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This is my son George. He is 8 years old, attends public school, is about to be in the third grade, and he is Hispanic, like most of the little ones who lost their lives this week in Uvalde. His teeth are a little too big for his mouth and his hair is almost always disheveled. But he never fails to warmly hug his mama when she sees him and he is always there to be a friend to his fellow students at his DISD elementary school.

Like everyone else in Texas, I watched the developments in Uvalde in absolute and abject horror. How could this happen? Who would be so evil as to attack little children? What can be done so that this doesn’t happen again?

But, against all logic and reason, we know that in Texas and the United States of America, this will happen again. Soon and frequently. Why?

Is it because Texans have been acculturated to accept the slaughter of innocent children? As a parent of three children in public school, I am certain that the answer to that question is a resounding, “No!”

Is it because the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms? As a licensed carrier of firearms in my home and car and on my person, the answer to that line of questioning is also “No.”

The reason we are here, yet again, experiencing the collective tragedy of Uvalde, is because of the fecklessness and political cowardice of our elected officials.

How do I know this? Because I used to be an elected official. I represented a wealthy and privileged district of Dallas as a member of the Texas Legislature.

Many members of the Texas House and Senate and various other statewide officials have a vested interest in supporting unfettered and unrestricted access to the most lethal firearms available on the non-military market. There is literally no restriction that they will support unless the NRA and the Texas State Rifle Association allow them to support it.

This is not hyperbole. During my career in politics, there was zero tolerance for any deviation from the position of the NRA or the TSRA.

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This is the US – where guns are the leading cause of death for children age one and older, and where the state of Texas restricts dildo ownership (it’s illegal to own more than six dildos) but lets people carry a handgun without licensing or training.

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Comfort dogs have been deployed to Uvalde, Texas, from near and far

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:

[QUOTE] This is the US – where guns are the leading cause of death for children age one and older, and where the state of Texas restricts dildo ownership (it’s illegal to own more than six dildos) . . .

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Originally posted by RealPlayer:

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:

[QUOTE] This is the US – where guns are the leading cause of death for children age one and older, and where the state of Texas restricts dildo ownership (it’s illegal to own more than six dildos) . . .

Just don't wave that thing around in public.

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Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw ripped into the Uvalde school police chief's handling of last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School and said that some officers wanted to approach the gunman earlier, including a school district police officer whose wife was killed in the massacre.

That officer, Ruben Ruiz, received a call from his wife, Eva Mireles, who told him that she had been shot.

"He tried to move forward into the hallway," McCraw said Tuesday at a Senate hearing. "He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene."

Mireles later died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.

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Additional officers arrived with the first ballistic shield at 11:52, while two more shields were at the scene shortly after noon.

Despite that, Arredondo waited over an hour for more firepower, tactical gear, and a key to unlock the classroom door, which wasn't necessary because the door was unlocked the whole time, McCraw said Tuesday.