Save Our Children!

End the Carnage of Semiautomatic Weapons

If there’s anything in which you would not want your state to excel, it would have to be in the mass murder of innocent people, especially children. But here in Texas, this is where we find ourselves. I offer the following citations to refresh the memory:

      • 2023 Allen Premium Outlets shooting (AR-15), 8 dead, 7 injured. 
      • 2023 Cleveland neighborhood massacre (AR-15), 5 dead. 
      • 2022 Uvalde ISD, Robb Elementary School massacre, (AR-15-style), 21 dead, 18 injured. 
      • 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting (WASR-10), 23 dead, 22 injured. 
      • 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting (Remington 870, Rossi .38 caliber), 10 dead, 13 injured.
      • 2017 Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting (Ruger AR-556, Glock 19 semi-automatic, Ruger SR22 semi-automatic), 26 dead, 22 injured.
      • 2017 Plano shooting, domestic violence (AR-15), 9 dead, 1 injured.
      • 2016 Dallas shooting of police officers (Saiga AK-74, Glock 19 Semi-automatic handgun), 5 dead, 11 injured.
      • 2014 Spring shooting, familicide (9mm Springfield Armory XD semi-automatic pistol), 6 dead, 1 inured.
      • 2014 Fort Hood shootings (.45 caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol), 3 dead, 14 injured.
      • 2012 College Station shooting (Vz58 tactical semi-automatic rifle, .40 caliber SIG Sauer semi-automatic pistol), 2 dead, 4 injured.

How, in the name of all that’s holy, does an entire political party refuse to take action in the wake of this kind of slaughter? I find myself perplexed by it, but I have a theory. Maybe — just maybe — we have a political party whose bread is buttered by the gun lobby. And it makes little to no difference how many innocents must have their lives cut short, so long as that gun lobby keeps raking in the riches.

I must beg your indulgence for my tone here, but this eviscerates me. How can any political party which proclaims so vociferously to be “pro-life” give so little a damn about the butchery of our innocent children? However much Republicans may protest that they’re “the party of family values,” it’s clear from their inaction that they’re willing to sacrifice the lives of our children in service of their gun lobby’s demand for profit. Family values, my foot. It’s beyond shameful, and it demands their ouster.

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