Just before a shooter killed 20 in El Paso, the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws

[Zorro]

What is most horrifying about the killings in El Paso, Texas, where a man openly carrying a rifle strolled into a Walmart in a shopping mall and opened fire, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 40, is not that they happened.

Nor even that they reflect a circumstance of American life that has become so mundane that politicians can pull a premasticated statement of “thoughts and prayers” out of their files and post it on Twitter even before the blood has dried. (President Trump was quick out of the box to uselessly offer a tweeted “God be with you all.”)

No. What was most horrifying is what the El Paso shootings tell us about the utter inability and unwillingness of our political leaders to heed the message of gun violence by doing something about it. Texas is a model case, for its legislators and governor not only turned down measures that would impose rational controls on gun owners, but loosened existing laws.

This was done under pressure from the National Rifle Assn. and its Texas branch, known as the Texas State Rifle Assn. Just six weeks ago, on June 29, the NRA’s Texas lobbyist crowed that 2019 was a “highly successful” year for the organization. Every single bill backed by the NRA and passed by the Legislature received the signature of Gov. Greg Abbott.

“When you get 10 pro-2nd Amendment bills to the governor and he signs them all, I would rank it up there with one of the most successful sessions we’ve had since I’ve been doing this,” the lobbyist, Tara Mica, told the Dallas Morning News.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-04/nra-celebrated-looser-texas-gun-laws-before-el-paso-shooting

[in2herbs]

1. I am against the death penalty however I believe that anyone who is a murderous terrorist

should be sentenced to life at Guantanamo or on Alkatraz. There is no escaping from these places. I also don't feel that these places should be spruced up before or at any time during their confinement. Drop them off, give them a packet of seeds, and tell them to fend for themselves.

[forgotmylogin]

2. I agree, also am not for death penalty except possibly in clear-cut cases of public massacres.

I know usually this type of violence ends in suicide, but when any mass violence in public occurs where there are dozens of witnesses and video of the carnage and there's no doubt who the perp is and the victims are randomly-chosen targets, I'd say that's an example of a person who is literally a danger to society and should never see the outside of a jail again.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Can't the lobbyist get less immoral job

Like selling cigarettes to children or fentanyl to addicts?

[BeckyDem]

4. USA aka FREAK NATION.