Texas Republicans Are Responsible For Putting The Gun In The Hands Of The Texas Killer

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Sen. Rafael “Ted” Cruz (R-TX) is most notable for being the most hated man in the U.S. Senate. Everyone hates Ted.

“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz,” Al Franken wrote in his book, “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate.” “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

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The Texas Tribune reports, Top Texas Republicans resist gun control and push for more armed teachers and police at schools in wake of Uvalde shooting:

As the death toll mounted from the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde and President Joe Biden vowed to push for stricter gun laws, Texas Republicans made it clear that any kind of gun restriction in response to the tragedy was off the table.

“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”

Let’s break this down. The shooter (whose name shall never be mentioned) was neither a felon nor a fugitive, and despite right-wing conspiracy theories to the contrary, he was not an illegal immigrant but a U.S. citizen. According to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at his campaign press briefings, the shooter also did not have any known prior history with law enforcement, or treatment for mental illness.

You’re “Oh-fer” Ted.

Oh, and the shooter legally purchased the rifle and a second one like it last week, just after his 18th birthday, authorities said.

Texas has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years. Child Gun Deaths In Texas Doubled Under Greg Abbott. Then Came Uvalde. “The annual number of gun deaths for children 17 and under jumped from 54 in 2015, Abbott’s first year as governor, to 146 in 2020 — the latest year available from the Centers for Disease Control. Youth gun deaths rose every year over that period, except one. Texas has the distinction of having more children die by gunshot than any other state.”

Let’s break this down. NBC News reports, The Uvalde school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway.

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had doubled its security budget in recent years, according to public documents, in part to comply with state legislation passed in the wake of a 2018 school shooting in which eight students and two teachers were killed. The district adopted an array of security measures that included its own police force, threat assessment teams at each school, a threat reporting system, social media monitoring software, fences around schools and a requirement that teachers lock their classroom doors, according to the security plan posted on the district’s website.

Somehow — the account provided by authorities is not entirely clear — a high school dropout with no known criminal history was able to evade a district officer outside Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and enter a [unlocked] back door armed with a rifle. From there the gunman, 18, proceeded down a hallway and into a [unlocked] classroom, where he locked the door and opened fire, authorities said. Nineteen children were killed, along with two teachers.

It happened anyway.

[T]he school district has not answered questions about how its security plan was implemented. But the death toll suggests that even security plans that appear to be comprehensive and up to the latest research-based standards may have gaps and ultimately fall short of preventing the worst-case scenario, experts said.

KXAN in Texas adds, Uvalde school police officer was first to engage shooter:

Uvalde CISD, located 84 miles outside of San Antonio, is one of the smaller school districts in Texas. The school district has its own police department made up of four officers, a police chief and a detective. According to the school’s website, the district has also hired a security guard.

The district’s policy is to have security staff patrol door entrances, parking lots, and the perimeters of campuses at the middle and high school, according to a document listing the school district’s security measures from the 2019-20 school year.

It is unclear if Uvalde CISD typically stations its police officers at the elementary school campus, but according to a briefing from Abbott Wednesday afternoon, one of the district’s officers approached the shooter as he was heading into the building Tuesday.

The Texas Tribune adds, Uvalde mass shooter was confronted by law enforcement before entering elementary school:

The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde on Tuesday was confronted by a law enforcement officer before he entered the elementary school that became the site of his massacre, authorities said Wednesday.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at the press conference that the shooter approached a back door of the school and was confronted by a school resource officer who “engaged him at that time” but “the subject was able to make it into the school.” It’s unclear whether the school officer and the gunman exchanged gunfire.

The usual meaning of “engaged” is an exchange of gunfire. How is this detail not clear by now?

“He went down a hallway, turned right and then turned left and there were two classrooms that were adjoining,” McCraw said. “And that is where the carnage began.”

All 19 children and two teachers killed were in the same classroom, a state law enforcement official said Wednesday morning.

[The shooter] was “able to make entry into a classroom, barricaded himself inside that classroom and … just began shooting numerous children and teachers that were in that classroom, having no regard for human life,” Olivarez said.

So the school district had a safety plan, it supposedly was a hardened target (unlocked doors refute this), and had a school resource officer who “engaged” the shooter before he entered an unlocked door to the building, but it is not yet clear whether this means the resource officer exchanged gunfire.

You’re “Oh-fer” again Ted.

Almost everyone has been praising the “quick response” of law enforcement who eventually shot and killed the shooter. The Texas Tribune reported:

Law enforcement officers arriving on the scene could hear gunshots inside the classroom, Olivarez said. Officers tried to enter the school, but the shooter fired on them, hitting some of the officers, Olivarez said. At that point, police officers “began breaking windows around the school” in an attempt to evacuate children, teachers and staff, he said.

Officers were eventually able to force their way into the classroom and kill the shooter, who wore a tactical vest, Olivarez said.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent killed Ramos, Abbott said.

But wait! It turns out, not such a quick a response. This part of the story has now taken a dark turn.

The Associated Press reports, Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school:

Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.

“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.

Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.

Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”

“They were unprepared,” he added.

Officials say [the shooter] “encountered” a school district security officer outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire. After running inside, he fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. The police officers were injured.

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Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told reporters that 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer to when the tactical team shot him, though a department spokesman said later that they could not give a solid estimate of how long the gunman was in the school or when he was killed.

“The bottom line is law enforcement was there,” McCraw said. “They did engage immediately. They did contain [the shooter] in the classroom.”

You have a different definition of “immediately” than the commonly understood meaning of this word.

Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

Do you mean to tell me that out of all the police tactical units on scene not one of them had a battering ram? Break a goddamn window!

Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner.

“There were more of them. There was just one of him,” he said.

So let’s put to rest the NRA bullshit that “only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.” The school resource officer failed. Two cops who arrived early on the scene were wounded and failed. A mass police presence took 40 minutes to an hour, by their own estimate, to eliminate the threat – plenty of time for the shooter to casually massacre every child and teacher in that classroom in cold blood.

I don’t want to imagine the horror and fear those poor babies must have experienced before their horrific painful deaths.

All the standard Republican solutions failed at every step along the way. Every one.

So now we are back to Republican officials reviving failed ideas to stop future mass shooters — arming teachers and school administrators, putting more police officers on campus and limiting entryways to school buildings.

After spending the last six months demonizing school teachers for “indoctrinating” children with what Republicans generically refer to as Critical Race Theory (making white kids feel bad about the violent white supremacy history of the United States) and “grooming” (sexualizing) children for pedophilia and God knows what else (QAnon conspiracy theory), NOW they want those same teachers to be armed and expect them to be law enforcment officers as well?

Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego had the only approriate response to Sen. Ted Cruz and other delusional Texas Republicans. Ruben Gallego hurls expletives at Ted Cruz after he attacks Dems after Texas school massacre:

In a series of coarse tweets reflecting the raw outrage at the slaying of at least 18 children and a teacher in Uvalde, Texas, Gallego, D-Ariz., also alluded to an infamous 2021 trip to Cancun, Mexico, Cruz took as his state grappled with massive blackouts following a winter storm.

Twenty-one minutes later, Gallego doubled down on the message:

Gallego did so in response to the remarks by Cruz reported by CNN:

“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”

I can guarantee you that every Senator and every Senate staffer at one time or another has muttered “Fuck you Ted Cruz,” they just didn’t put into writing.

So spare me all the GQP apologists, like the Arizona Republic’s conservative columnist Phil Boas, who is clutching his pearls and getting all sanctimonious over an appropriate expletive hurled at Ted Cruz with this utter nonsense: “On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., figuratively waved the blood-soaked shirts of the Texas elementary school dead at U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and blamed him, not the gunman, for the massacre.”

I believe this is a “Fuck you Phil”:

That 18 year old gunman was only able to get his hands on a weapon of mass murder because of Texas Republican politicians who have made it easy for anyone over 18 to obtain a weapon of mass murder, no questions asked. So yes, Phil, Republicans are to blame. And fuck you Phil.

I’m sure that GQP apologist Phil Boas would say the same thing about former congressman Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, for interrupting the White Christian Nationalist Texas Republican Party campaign rally press conference yesterday.

This was Daniel walking into the lion’s den.

It was an incredible act of bravery. Most of the White Christian Nationalist Texas Republican Party (including Ted Cruz) was arrayed before him on stage, and Beto O’ Rourke walked right up to them, unafraid and uninitimidated, looked Governor Gregg Abbot right in the eyes, and leveled the truth at him: “The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you are doing nothing. You’re offering us nothing.”

What GQP apologists like Phil Boas should be upset about is Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s abusive response to a constituent expressing what hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Texans, would have liked to have said to Gov. Abbott if only they had the courage that Beto O’Rourke demonstrated. When Patrick told O’Rourke to sit down and shut up, that message was directed at the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Texans, whom the White Christian Nationalist Texas Republican Party seeks to initimidate and bully into silence from being critical.

CBS News reports, Beto O’Rourke interrupts Greg Abbott’s Uvalde press conference: “You are doing nothing”:

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference in Uvalde after the mass shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead.

Abbott said he would be passing the microphone to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, when O’Rourke stood up. “You are doing nothing,” O’Rourke said, adding that the shooting was “totally predictable” because gun laws were not strengthened following other shootings in the state.

Patrick told O’Rourke to “sit down … you’re out of line in an embarrassing encounter” and called on O’Rourke to leave the auditorium. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who was also on stage, told O’Rourke to sit down.

“I can’t believe you’re a sick son of a b**** to come to a place like this to make a political issue,” one of the officials onstage told O’Rourke.

Austin’s PBS station adds:

O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor, approached the stage and told Abbott: “This is on you.”

“You said this was not predictable? This is totally predictable when you choose not to do anything,” he said, blaming Abbott’s policies for the shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two adults dead Tuesday morning.

O’Rourke later talked to reporters outside Uvalde High School, where the press conference was taking place.

He said there are solutions the governor has ignored, like safe-storage gun laws and banning the sales of AR-15-style rifles.

“Those are … solutions that have been brought up by the people of Texas, each one of those has broad bipartisan support,” O’Rourke said. “Right now we could get that done if we had a governor who cared more about the people of Texas than he does his own political career or his fealty to the NRA.”

O’Rourke called out Abbott for talking about mental health in the press conference, when “it is insane that we allow an 18-year-old to go in and buy an AR-15.”

CBS News continues:

Law enforcement officers appeared to escort O’Rourke out of the news conference afterward. CBS News’ Janet Shamalian said it appeared that some people had saved seats for O’Rourke.

After O’Rourke was escorted out, he told reporters, “these kids died because the governor of the state of Texas, the most powerful man in the state, chose to do nothing.”

“After every one of these, he holds a press conference just like this – and I wish to hell when he came to El Paso that someone would have stood up and held him to account and confronted him and shocked the conscience of this state into doing something,” O’Rourke said. “Because if we do nothing, we will continue to see this. Year after year, school after school, kid after kid. This is on all of us, every single one of us to do something.”

Sen. Ted Cruz later told CBS Dallas Fort Worth that O’Rourke was “acting like a peacock.”

“So I got to tell you, I get tired of all the politicking. It happens every time there is a mass shooting,” Cruz said.

Seriously, Ted? Hours after Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser 300 miles away:

Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Tuesday night in East Texas, hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school over 300 miles away in Uvalde. His campaign says he is postponing all political activities going forward.

The news of Abbott’s attendance at the fundraiser was first reported by Quorum Report.

Abbott’s appearance at the fundraiser came as other Texas politicians were canceling similar events due to the tragedy.

After holding a briefing and press conference on the current wild fires in Taylor County, where he also provided an update the situation in Uvalde, the Governor did stop by a previously scheduled event last night at a private home in Walker County,” Abbott campaign spokesperson Mark Miner said in a statement. “All campaign and political activity, including a scheduled fundraiser for this evening, have postponed until further notice.”

That would be this Friday, when Gov. Abbott, Sen. Cruz and the former guy, Donald Trump, are scheduled to speak in Houston at the National Rifle Association’s 2022 annual meeting. Do you call that politicking, Ted?

I guarantee that all three of these assholes will come out in opposition to any new gun safety regulations in the wake of this most recent mass murder of innocent children in Texas. Their answer is always “more guns.”

A new study released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reports that gun production in the USA has tripled over the last 22 years. There are now more than 400 million guns, from sea to shining sea.

The F.B.I. released a report showing a steep rise in ‘active’ shooters on Monday. “The 2021 total represented a 52 percent increase from the tally of such shootings in 2020, and a 97 percent increase from 2017, according to the F.B.I.’s Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021 report.”

Firearms were the leading cause of death for kids one and older for the first time in 2020, the most recent year for which CDC data is available.

The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas this week was the 27th school shooting this year and the 119th since 2018, Education Week reports.





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6 thoughts on “Texas Republicans Are Responsible For Putting The Gun In The Hands Of The Texas Killer”

  1. UPDATE: Huffington Post reports, “Man Confronts Ted Cruz At Restaurant: ’19 Dead Kids, That’s On Your Hands'”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-confronted-restaurant-gun-policy_n_62923102e4b0edd2d0247afb

    Sen. Ted Cruz, fresh off the stage at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston, sat down to a sushi dinner that was interrupted on Friday by a fellow Texan who confronted the Republican lawmaker over his hard-line stance on firearms, three days after 21 people were gunned down at an elementary school in the state.

    The end of the confrontation saw the man shouting above security officers walking him toward the door.

    “Nineteen children died! That’s on your hands! Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!” he says in video of the incident.

    The man, Benjamin Hernandez, told HuffPost that he was in Houston because his digital advertising company was livestreaming the protests staged outside the NRA convention. When he saw Cruz walk into the same restaurant where he was having dinner, Hernandez said, he thought, “Oh, hell no.”

    “A couple of days ago, I had caught that clip of Beto [O’Rourke] confronting [Texas Gov. Greg] Abbott, and I wrote something to the effect of, ‘Confront all these hypocritical assholes like Beto did.’ And it’s really easy to tweet, right?” Hernandez told HuffPost. “But then two days later, Ted Cruz is walking in this space where I am, and it’s like, OK, I have to go talk to him now.”

    [At] the restaurant, Hernandez pretended to pose for a picture with his arm around Cruz while a friend began surreptitiously recording a video that captured him turning to Cruz to talk about gun policy after the fake photo.

    “You know, I would encourage you ― I gave about a half-hour speech today at the NRA convention ― I encourage you to watch it,” Cruz can be heard responding.

    Hernandez, speaking quickly, implores him to explain his stance on gun control in the wake of the Uvalde shooting where 19 children and two adult teachers were killed.

    “Background checks ― is that so hard?” he says.

    Cruz glances back at the person filming, appearing to realize what’s going on, then tells Hernandez, “OK, you don’t want to listen.” Hernandez then stops speaking, allowing Cruz to say that Democrats’ proposals, which he did not define, would not have stopped the shooter.

    Hernandez then tells Cruz: “You can make it harder for people to get guns in this country. You know that. You know that. But you stand here, you stand at the NRA convention ― it is harder, it is harder when there are more guns to stop gun violence.”

    At that point, security officers position themselves between Cruz and Hernandez, escorting him to the door.

    The two-minute video was shared by Indivisible Houston, a progressive activist group, which identified Hernandez as a board member. Another patron of the sushi restaurant captured the interaction from another angle, as Cruz’s security began forcibly leading Hernandez away.

    “The time for civil discourse and debate ― when they allow it, which they don’t ― that’s over, to me,” Hernandez told HuffPost.

    He continued: “It is uncomfortable. Yes, it was uncomfortable for me to go and do that ― that’s not me. My mom was even surprised that I dropped the F-bomb. But this week has had me dropping F-bombs, because I’m just so incensed that they would stand there and not do anything about it.”

    Link to Indivisible video: https://twitter.com/indivisibleHOU/status/1530406915716435968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1530406915716435968%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fted-cruz-confronted-restaurant-gun-policy_n_62923102e4b0edd2d0247afb

    Link to second video: https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1530503526924918784

  2. Philip Bump explains to Phil Boas at The Republic, “Demands not to ‘politicize’ tragedy are themselves political demands”, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/26/demands-not-politicize-tragedy-are-themselves-political-demands/

    “Politicize” can means lots of things. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting spree, Cruz tweeted his condolences to those affected. It’s a sort of politicization — politician expressing his condolences — to which no one would object.

    On Wednesday, though, Cruz was making comments like this on television.

    “The Senate needs to act by passing legislation to harden schools so this doesn’t happen again.”

    Is this not a “politician looking to advance their own political agenda”? Why is this not “politicizing” the attack?

    What often emerges at moments like this is a vague sort of “not yet”-ing generally applied to those who advocate for restrictions on the availability of firearms. That the time has not yet come for any such discussion, given that parents (or, more vaguely, “communities”) are still grieving. Sometimes, the proposed boundary is that the victims have not yet been buried, suggesting that discussion of politics wait until that’s happened.

    The immediate intent of this chiding, obviously, is to cast the person raising the political issue as somehow morally deficient or unsympathetic to the victims. The broader intent is to let anger dissipate — something that happens very quickly.

    If your goal is to keep people from transmuting their anger into political advocacy, insisting that your opponents muffle their rhetoric for a few days helps get you to that point.

    Not all of the demands that tragedies not be politicized are offered in bad faith. Partisans often see their opponents’ concerns as invalid or insincere in ways that are not warranted. And, of course, there are hard-to-define ways in which boundaries of propriety might be crossed.

    We should however recognize this demand for what it often is: itself an effort to politicize tragedy. Demanding that people not advocate their own responses to tragedy because it’s “politicizing” things is, itself, a political tactic. It is politicization, leveraging the suffering of those affected to bolster one’s own political position.

    Using victims’ pain to deflect your opponents’ political goals is no different from using victims’ pain to advance your own.

    -And that is exactly what GQP apologist Phil Boas was doing. So again, fuck you Phil.

  3. UPDATE: According to a briefing from Gov. Greg Abbott Wednesday afternoon, one of the school district’s officers approached the shooter as he was heading into the building and “engaged” the shooter Tuesday. Today we learn from newly released security video that there was NO school district officer and the shooter was Not “engaged” as he entered the building. WTF?

    CNN reports, “Uvalde mass shooter was not confronted by police before he entered the school, Texas official says”, https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/us/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-thursday/index.html

    The 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was NOT confronted by police before he entered the school, a Texas law enforcement official said Thursday, contradicting earlier comments from authorities and raising further questions about the police response to the massacre.

    “He walked in unobstructed initially,” Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Regional Director Victor Escalon said. “So from the grandmother’s house, to the (ditch), to the school, into the school, he was not confronted by anybody.”

    The shooter approached the school and shot at the building multiple times and walked in through an apparently unlocked door at 11:40 a.m., according to Escalon.

    There was no school resource officer on site or available at the time, he said. Inside, the suspect walked into a classroom and fired more than 25 times, Escalon said. The majority of the gunfire was in the beginning of the attack, he said.

    Officers arrived at the school at 11:44 a.m., but when they went to confront the gunman, they received fire and took cover, Escalon said. Three law enforcement officers went in the same door the shooter used to enter the school and four went through another school entrance, DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

    Officers called for more resources and personnel, evacuated students and teachers in other parts of the school, and at some point entered “negotiations” with the suspect, Escalon said. After about an hour, a US Border Patrol tactical team came to the classroom, forced entry and fatally shot the suspect, he said.

    Olivarez said Thursday morning the shooter had barricaded himself in the classroom, which was attached to an adjoining room. All of the 21 killed and 17 injured were inside those classrooms, officials have said.

    The lengthy response time, as well as a lack of communication to the public, created a chaotic situation outside the school as parents arrived, desperate to know if their kids were still alive. One father said he asked a law enforcement officer for gear.

    “I told one of the officers myself, if they didn’t want to go in there, let me borrow his gun and a vest and I’ll go in there myself to handle it, and they told me no,” the father told CNN’s Jason Carroll. His son survived.

  4. Censorship in Texas! The Dallas-Ft.Worth Star Telegram reports, “Did Texas ABC affiliate WFAA censor ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ over Uvalde monologue?” , https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article261811562.html

    Jimmy Kimmel began his show Wednesday night without an audience.

    The comedian fought back tears during a comedy-free monologue in which he addressed the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde that left 21 dead, including 19 young kids.

    In Dallas-Fort Worth, however, Kimmel’s six-minute monologue was cut off by a string of commercials, beginning with an in-house WFAA/Ch. 8 news spot. The ABC affiliate played several more commercials before cutting back into the end of the monologue, which Kimmel used for a three-minute Everytown.org commercial. The gun violence prevention organization aims to enact “evidence-based solutions” to curb gun violence.

    “WFAA apologizes for technical difficulties that interrupted Jimmy Kimmel Live at multiple points, including during his monologue on gun control,” that station said in a statement Thursday morning.

    Viewers in North Texas were left wondering what happened, with many speculating that WFAA had pulled the plug and censored Kimmel.

    “To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our @ABCNetwork affiliate @wfaa cut away from my monologue tonight intentionally or inadvertently but I will find out,” Kimmel posted on social media. “In the meantime, here’s what you didn’t get to see.”

    -It earned a full write-up in the newspaper, and they do know that there is the Internet, right? Censorship fail.

  5. According to the Republican senator Ted Cruz it’s the number of doors, not guns, that schools should be worried about. The solution to school shootings is fewer doorways and more guns according to the Senator. Huffington Post

  6. Former Speaker of the House John Boehner called Ted Cruz in his book On The House “the most miserable S.O.B in Congress” and that is the only good thing about Ted. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is to stop selling guns to supposedly good guy’s.

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