Bay Area Houston

I didn’t think so.

It’s been two years since 19 children were slaughtered at Ross Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. A scan of the news, including the Houston Chronicle, shows a couple of articles posted yesterday concerning the parents settling a suit against the State, but nothing else. The shooting has become like every other mass shooting in Texas, forgotten. Austin, Santa Fe, Sutherland, Killeen, Cleveland, Odessa, and others, all forgotten.

Since the shootings not one single elected official has been held accountable for the lax guns laws they supported that led to an 18 year old easily buying a military style weapon and killing 19 children and 2 teachers. Not one. Even the voters in Uvalde gave Greg Abbott a pass voting to re-elected him in 2022. Our schools are still not safe, and will never be safe as long as we have lax gun laws.

There will be another shooting, maybe at a school, or a parade, or a church, or a concert, or a mall. It is going to happen and like Uvalde our elected officials will do nothing and we will all forget unless it’s our family members who are killed or who will need care for the rest of their lives.

So keep Uvalde in your thoughts and prayers. It is the least you can do. Literally.

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