Monday, September 2, 2019

Texas Republican Pols Deflect Blame On Guns


After this weekend's mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, TX, where a shooter armed with an assault-style rifle killed 7 and wounded at least 22 people, we saw the pro forma responses from Rethuglican hack politicians, from the mayor of Odessa blaming violent video games, to the National Rifle Rampage Association's cowering little lackey, Texass Gov. Greg "Rabbit" Abbott, blaming the shooting on "hatred and violence." Of course, hatred and violent video games exist throughout the industrialized world, and no nation has anywhere near the epidemic of mass shootings that the U.S. does.

In a sign of how much Texas Rethuglicans care, the day after the Odessa killings, a bill they passed loosened the state's gun laws, making it easier to carry guns in schools, churches, and after natural disasters. For the cynical Governor, it appears to be all about the cycle of buy more guns / gun lobby contributes to me / I loosen gun laws / buy more guns, repeat endlessly. He even tweeted his disturbing perspective in 2015, urging Texans to load up on guns, copying the NRA:


CNN's Carol Costello wrapped up the disgust decent people feel at Abbott's transparent "tired of the dying" crocodile tears in two words:

Turning Texas purple, if not in 2020 but soon after, will achieve the moral goal of sweeping many of these NRA-owned Rethuglican hacks from office and into the ignominious obscurity they deserve. 
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