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The Houston Chronicle missed a few mass shootings.

The Chronicle finally put the blame on our elected officials for the Uvalde shooting. Sort of. Because of their lack of action on common sense gun regulations the parents of Uvalde have filed a number of lawsuits against organizations that gave easy access to guns and ammo to the 18 year old who killed 19 children. They are not alone. Some Santa Fe parents have also sued. And they are winning.

Our elected officials have protected the gun industry from lawsuits much like they are protected from suits after they gave that weapon to the 18 year old. It’s time to put the blame for these shootings that have killed children, police, members of the military, Mexican Americans on them. They are responsible for these senseless killings by giving easy access to mentally ill individuals to military style firearms.

They are responsible for forcing tax payers to pay for the leveling of Ross Elementary and for building a new school. They are responsible for the suits against the police who did nothing as the shooter was killing the kids. They are responsible for those who survived the shootings but will be scarred for life requiring continued medical care. They are responsible but will not be held accountable.

Gun violence was on the ballot in 2022 and not one single elected official, responsible for the Uvalde shooting, was held accountable. Not one. So who will be responsible for the next shooting?

Us.

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.

Rotten bastard.

Abbott likes to coddle guns even those so powerful they would flip him backwards in his wheelchair. Guns are a game to Abbott no matter the cost and it is going to cost. Someone.

21 families were shattered in Uvalde two years ago. They will suffer for the rest of their lives. Those who were wounded will require mental and physical care for their rest of their lives. The community will have to pay for a new school after Ross Elementary is torn down. Law enforcement individuals have resigned or been fired for their role in the shooting. Now Uvalde will pay $2M to settle claims over the shooting. According to the Houston Chronicle:

“For two long years, we have languished in pain and without any accountability from the law enforcement agencies and officers who allowed our families to be destroyed that day,” said Veronica Luevanos, whose daughter Jailah and nephew Jayce were killed. “This settlement reflects a first good faith effort by the City of Uvalde to begin rebuilding trust in the systems that failed to protect us.” 

But it gets worse. The families are taking legal action against the law enforcement officers who botched the response to the shooting. From The Texas Tribune:

“The legal action against 92 DPS officers comes days before the two-year anniversary of the shooting in which an 18-year-old used an AR-15 to kill 19 students and two teachers in two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.”

The parents should focus on the root cause of the shooting and sue the living fuck out of Greg Abbott for putting that gun in the hands of a sick 18 year old fuck. He and every NRA ass kissing elected official are also responsible for the shooting in Uvalde and every shooting in the State. They play with their guns. They protect their guns. They think it’s cute. These people are sick fucks.

May god damn them to hell.

After a scathing report from the Department of Justice concerning the mass shooting at Ross Elementary Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for swift consequences for all involved law enforcement. “21 crime victims in Uvalde never even had their crime investigated. That includes 19 young children ,” Abbott wrote on X on Thursday. “The state must impose consequences for this neglect & provide solutions to prevent acts like this that allow criminals to get easy access to military firearms.”

The response by local law enforcement was swift. “We were confronted by an 18 year old with a military style weapon one that Abbott provided easy access to. Maybe Abbott ought to shut his goddamn mouth, get off his lazy ass, and get these damn weapons off the street. “

What a rotten crippled bastard. Welcome to Satire Sunday.

You think it can’t happen here? Think. Again.

In the 2023 Texas Legislation session House Bill 179 was filed by Representative Goodwin. It would ban all firearms at protests, public gatherings, parades, and other events. It was filed, sent to the “Community Safety” Committee and died. There was no hearings, public testimony, discussion. Nothing. Zero. Zip. It just fucking died. So guns are allowed at the next Astros victory parade.

The law to be modified currently makes it a crime to expose yourself, shout profanities, make offensive gestures, create an obnoxious odor, make threats, makes unreasonable noise, fights with another, discharges a firearm, or display your anus. The bill added “displays a firearm while attending or within 500 feet of a public demonstration.” In Houston you cannot carry an American flag on a pole and would be asked to leave the area, but you can take that same flag and put it on a loaded AR-15 and the police can’t do a gaddamn thing about it.

If this had passed you would be subject to being shot by the police if you open carry an assault weapon at an Astros victory parade or at a 4th of July Parade. If you are carrying a firearm in public, then you are a danger to the public.

By the way, Friendswood allows open carry of assault weapons at their parade and park during the 4th of July weekend. Have fun!

When will we demand action?

What will it take before we demand action on gun control from our elected officials? What will it take? Who has to die before we get up off our ass and do something? Will it take a mass shooting at a school killing twenty one 1st graders? Or nineteen 9 year olds? Or 8 high school students right here in the Bay Area? When will all you fuckin so called “Christians” put your goddamn bible down, the one you never read, and finally demand action after 26 christians were killed while praying in church? Maybe Joel Osteen might have something to say about it.

It is clear as fucking glass Greg Abbott isn’t going to get off his ass and do something about gun violence. Neither is Ted Cruz, or our own State Representative Dennis Paul. They think it is fun to pose with guns, or fry bacon on an assault rifle, or walk around like a dork with an NRA hat. It’s a game to them. It is funny and people, children, christians, police, service men, dancers, teachers, and others are dying. Real fucking funny.

So it is up to us and so far we have failed. You would have thought the voters in Uvalde would have voted Abbott off the island after the shooting at Ross Elementary. They didn’t, and they are not alone. Voters in Texas returned the very person responsible for gun violence, they guy who bragged about making Texas a sanctuary state for guns, back to office so he could continue sitting on his ass and do nothing while children and police are slaughtered.

The only thing Texans are good at is making fucking [fill in the blank] Strong t-shirts. What’s it going to take before we do something? Dennis Paul can be reached at (281) 488-8900.

I’ll give you one guess.

After the Uvalde shooting that took the lives of 19 children I met State Representative Dennis Paul on the greenbelt while walking our dogs. I began my conversation with “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DENNIS?”. Needless to say the conversation went downhill from that point forward. Dennis Paul and his cowardly republican buddies gave that shooter easy access to a firearm and he used it shattering the lives of many families and the Uvalde community.

Paul doesn’t care who has easy access to firearms no matter who gets killed. According multiple reports this senseless shooting that took the life of a 7 year old child might have been prevented. The shooter had a history of mental problems, was going through a tough divorce process including custody issues. She has a history of criminal activity which ended in surrendering of some firearms. Yet because of easy access to firearms she was able to buy an AR15. Luckily a couple of off duty law enforcement officers shot and killer her, as well as her son.

Maybe some kind of red flag law would have prevented this shooting. Maybe some kind of change in our gun nut culture could have prevented this shooting but don’t look to Paul to make that happen. Last year Paul was all weepy about a young women, a member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Republican Party, who was shot and killed by her husband. He also killed himself leaving three young children without parents. She too was going through an ugly divorce. Paul offered thoughts and prayers.

This latest shooting and future shootings could be prevented if Paul and his fucked up buddies would get off their goddamn knees and do something. So as I asked before WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DENNIS?

Well, how are those thoughts and prayers doing fer ya?

This shooting could have been so much worse. The shooter picked the wrong place in the church to open fire and was killed by two off duty policemen. The child she brought with her is in critical condition possibly also shot by the police. As we have said over and over again, thoughts and prayers will not stop people from killing people then they have easy access to firearms and with the gun culture we have in the United States.

Cruz has contributed to that fucked up culture. He thinks it is funny, cute, to cook bacon on the barrel of an assualt style weapon and post it on YouTube. He thinks it is cute to dress up like Fidel Castro and take photo ops at the border claiming there is an invasion of immigrants and yet doing nothing about it. Last night someone tried to do something about it and all that sick fuck Cruz could do was say he and his ugly ass wife was praying for those affected.

Fuck you Ted. You are partially responsible for this shooting as you were for Uvalde, Santa Fe, Fort Hood, Sutherland Church, El Paso Walmart, Midland-Odessa and Allen mall shooting. You have made us unsafe at schools, churches, parades, rallies, football games, and every public event.

Do us a favor and shut your fucking mouth.

You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.

The Department of Justice released its report on the Uvalde massacre that took the lives of 19 children and 2 teachers. It’s 610 pages long and covers every issue concerning the shooting except for one. It’s hard to read because it covers the facts of the shooting in detail such as the timeline of events. We all know what happened and what time it happened. We all know that hundreds of well armed law enforcement agents did nothing as kids were being shot for nearly 2 hours. We know that Greg Abbott has made them the scapegoats for the entire incident.

But what did they miss? They missed addressing the root cause of the massacre, that being easy access to military style firearms by mentally sick individuals and mentally sick elected officials who have done nothing to stop gun violence. Greg Abbott and every NRA ass kissing elected official are the root cause of the massacre. They gave this sick individual easy access to military firearms, ammunition and body armor. They put that goddamn gun in his hands and he killed 21 people.

Greg Abbott and the entire fucked up Republican Party are responsible for this massacre and will continue to be responsible as long as their lips are stuck to the NRA’s ass. They are fucked up, mentally sick, sons of bitches, who have the power to prevent gun violence, yet they sit back and do nothing.

Sick fucks. All of them.

Unlike Texas Republicans, Maine Republicans are offering thoughts after 15+ were killed at a bowling alley in Lewiston Maine.

Texas Republicans stopped offering thoughts and prayers after the Santa Fe High School shooting which took the lives of 8 students and 2 teachers. You didn’t hear that phrase being used after Uvalde which took the lives of 19 3rd graders and 2 teachers. They stopped not because the offering is worthless, but because they were being ridiculed for doing it. People don’t want your fuckin thoughts and prayers. They want action.

But….Some Republicans didn’t get the memo and offered thoughts AND prayers including Lauren “Hand Job” Boebert, Chris Sununu, the Republican governor of New Hampshire, and Congressional Candidate Leon Benjamin. From Newsweek:

Leon Benjamin, who is running for Congress in Virginia, focused on policy and wrote: “Active Shooter in Maine! 22 Dead, 50+ injured! Pray and know how 5GW is very active right now. Our Nation is not being protected because of bad policies like: Defunding the Police!”

Don’t worry. After a week or so and after the funerals are over everyone will have forgotten the fallen and with Thanksgiving just around the corner they will be able to offer turkey, thoughts, and prayers.

This is sad and avoidable.

The Texas Republican Party mourned the loss of a young conservative activist. From CBS News:

“Words are difficult to express the feelings we have at the moment. Our heart goes out to Grace’s family, especially to her three children still at home, who are now left parentless. The best option we have at this time is fervent prayer for peace that surpasses our understanding,” said Matt Rinaldi, Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

Greg Abbott also offered his useless thoughts and prayers in the Midland Reporter-Telegram:

“Cecilia and I offer our heartfelt condolences to the family of Grace Jones, a wonderful mother, patriot and Texas Republican leader. … Forever grateful for her work on my campaign and her leadership in the conservative movement. … May God bless her and her family.”

Grace Jones was only 35 years old. She was a member of the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC). She had 3 children. Her husband shot her and then shot himself. They were going through a divorce. Abbott and the GOP have created a 2nd Amendment sanctuary in Texas providing more protection for their guns than for their own. They have resisted red flag laws or any gun laws that could have prevented this tragedy. Abbott once again has blood on his hands.

Republicans are quick to offer thoughts and prayers even if they are responsible for the death of someone in their own party. Case in point right here in Clear Lake, State Representative Dennis Paul took to the House floor to offer his worthless comments after another SREC member died of COVID. Paul let his friend, David Apley, a Dickinson City Council Member, shoot his mouth off about COVID “hoax” and he died from it. My letter to Paul:

Your party has failed Mr Apley by allowing misinformation to be spread by your members. Your party has failed over 53,000 families in the state by not taking this pandemic seriously. You allowed members of your party, “conservative” leaders in the community, and elected officials, such as Mr. Apley to mock science, downplay the severity of the virus, spread rumors, and fight every move by every elected official to stop this deadly virus in its track. You, personally failed Mr. Apley.

So fuck you Abbott, Paul, and the GOP. You helped kill this young lady.