WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell recounted the still emerging details of how the horror transpired. He solemnly described the characteristics of the 10-year-old victims. And he invoked a Bible verse to offer comfort to the brokenhearted families.
But in his first remarks on the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 dead, including 19 children, the Republican Senate leader offered no indication that the latest rampage has altered his thinking on the need to change America’s gun laws.
“It’s literally sickening – sickening to consider the innocent young lives that were stolen by this pointless, senseless brutality,” McConnell said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “The entire nation’s hearts are broken for the victims and for their families. Words simply fail.”
