Another school shooting by a gunman, loaded with automatic weaponry and killing at least 18 school children at an elementary school along with a teacher. This time it was in the state of Texas.
From US National News . . .
At least 14 children and one teacher are dead after an active shooter incident on Tuesday sent a Texas elementary school into lock down, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed. The suspect in the shooting is dead, according to Abbott. Following the incident at Robb Elementary, children were taken to the emergency room at Uvalde Memorial Hospital, per a statement from the hospital.
(Note- the update since this initial report now stands at 19 children dead, 21 total dead.)
How sad and sickening is this?
There are so many instances when this occurs, it really is disgusting. Just ten days ago, the lunatic in Buffalo, New York shot dead at least ten people in a grocery store. Several years ago, the shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida. And of course, nearly ten years ago was the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The governor of Texas today put forward the usual rhetoric following this latest shooting tragedy and then the republican party is already starting their grandstanding, including Mitch McConnell (republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky) who is wholly owned by the NRA and they have dumped plenty of money into his campaign coiffures throughout the years.
Hey Abbott and McConnell and (Texas republican U.S. Senator) Ted Cruz . . . Just shut up already and do something.
This country of ours is a mess when it comes to gun reform.
I am not holding my breath over anything being done about it, especially not in Texas. Abbott and his carelessness cost many people their lives last year when a winter deep freeze hit that state and their horse shit power grid failed and people froze to death. But no repercussions for Abbott and company.
Don't expect them to budge at all on this one either.
They will offer up their "thoughts and prayers" like they always do and it follows the old adage of rinse, lather, repeat. The next gun shooting/murder incident that occurs (and it will happen) they will do the same thing while making excuses as to why we cannot have sensible gun reform.
In the meantime, just go about your business and pay no mind to what happened and just be thankful it wasn't you or your children or loved ones this happened to.
That lax attitude has to change . . . for God's sake, it must change.
I'm out.
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