Senator Ted Cruz's solution to this sickening reality is to have one accessible door in each school. This guy has a law degree? Present your idea to a fire marshal, Ted.
A Fox News poll--we're talking right wing here--shows that two thirds of Americans want universal background checks for firearms purchases, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott like others ignores the will of the people. He says that the school shooting, "could have been worse." And that makes it okay? According to CNN, Abbott slashed more than $117 million from Texas' Health & Human Services Commission in 2021 and slightly over $93 million in 2022.
I had a tough time hearing about an 11 year old girl whose quick thinking saved her own life: she smeared her classmates' blood on herself and pretended to be dead. No other country in the world but the United States has these sick kinds of disasters. Citizens don't need assault rifles!
The Uvalde tragedy is another gut punch to Americans who repeatedly ask for a way to at least start to reverse this devastating trend--they're consistently ignored. Our students, teachers and families have suffered through the unthinkable again and again as the US response falls to new lows. We're Number One! In shootings. In cowardly politicians. In the extreme number of guns. In paid gun lobbyists. And in excuses. This must end.