How many major/mass shootings have there been in TX recently? Are TX officials asking WHY?

[bobbieinok]

Mental issues, etc, begin to get pretty old as an answer

[walkingman]

1. No, they know why.....GUNS, but are too damn sorry to do anything about it.

[Hoyt]

4. Exactly.

[dawg day]

2. it would be ironic if they have to present the idea that-

the proportion of violent insanity is much higher in Texas.

They'd probably rather pretend that than to say that the problem is too many guns.

[Va Lefty]

3. Thoughts and prayers seem to be the answer

[struggle4progress]

5. "We give Thee thanks for these many martyrs to our glorious Second Amendment!"

[El Supremo]

6. It is the gun culture.

Just like Michael Moore said a long time ago. Texas has one of the biggest. The answer is education and peer rejection. But making it harder to buy semi-automatic weapons would help.

[gay texan]

7. I can give you an explanation

In terms of its validity, is well, up to you.

I live here, I'm an hour away from Midland, Texas. The Republican masses here are essentially fucking stupid and wildly gullible.

So, when our esteemed governor wants to loosen up restrictions they buy into it and it buys him votes by "stickin it to them fuckin caly-forn-ya lib-rullls"

So, combine that mentality with the bullshit trump keeps spewing about Mexicans coming across the border in droves to rape and pillage our precious white people, plus fake media outlets like Fox and OAN, it's only a matter of time before all fucking hell breaks loose.

It's a powder keg right now.

[Srkdqltr]

8. They do it because they can....

They are allowed to. No one says .. you shouldn't kill...... All that is said is you are allowed.. you can have the gun.. you are entitled to the gun.
Guns are only for killing people so what are they supposed to do with them?? They are allowed.

[CanonRay]

9. They're convinced it's because

we don't pray enough in schools. Why look deeper?

[MagickMuffin]

10. Our Governor is NRA slap happy

He weakens our laws. He doesn't give a crap about people, only GUNS~~~

[NoPasaran]

13. Let's not give that giggling sociopath all the credit

He only signs the laws. The Legislature passes them.

Plenty of blame to go around.

[MagickMuffin]

15. Exactly

He signs them into law. The buck stops at his desk. He could easily not sign them. But he doesn't because he is in bed with the NRA.

Here's a actual tweet by him, I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA

http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/10/texas-request-to-buy-guns-tops-1-million-for-year/ …


So, he carries a lot of the blame. A LOT.

[vercetti2021]

16. Last Republican governor this state will have

I fucking hope

[MagickMuffin]

18. The last and best governor our state has ever had in my lifetime: Ann Richards

Can't wait for another one, she was truly an inspiration.

[vercetti2021]

19. Yep

Those days will happen again. The cons can't stop the trend of the Hispanic population and transplants.

[NoPasaran]

20. As long as as we're playing the blame game

Let's not forget the idiot voters of this sun-baked hellhole. They're the ones who send that whole pack of soulless voidoids to Austin. And reelect them again and again.

[MagickMuffin]

21. Awwww, the voters

Yep, they are mostly to blame because they choose to be manipulated by the cons. They choose to be willfully ignorant. And because they choose to be willfully ignorant the cons can take advantage of them all the more.

They pretend to be christians, but they are not. They pretend to be "prolife" but they are not.

They are duped little no brainers. They do not know how to think for themselves. And it's all by design by the powers that be!!!

[raccoon]

11. Well, Texas is a big ass state. I looked at the size of all

Well, Texas is a big ass state. I looked at the size of all the states —theus50.com.

It said Texas is 261,797 square miles.

I added the area of North Carolina,South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and came up with 234,377 square miles.

[El Supremo]

12. Texas is now the second most populist state.

It has grown faster than any other state.

It has nothing to due with area size. There are still vast regions with nothing but snakes and jackalopes.

[Sogo]

17. No, not mental illness....

Texans are just not Godly people.

Remember, "Thou shalt not kill," y'all?

[Liberal In Texas]

22. Gov started some kind of commission after El Paso but

any mention of having too many or the types of guns around is off the table.

They don't want to know what the problem is, they just want something they can point to to blame it all on.