Soon after learning of yet another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school, Texas’s conservative leaders quickly provided their latest, oft-repeated rhetoric of “thoughts and prayers”, while doubling down on the need for more – not fewer – guns in schools.
An 18-year-old shooter killed 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, about an hour and a half’s drive west of San Antonio. And while such horrors happen across the US, Texas has a political culture of easing access to guns and fiercely opposing any efforts to limit the rights of its citizens to arm themselves with powerful weapons intended for use on battlefields.
