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

[libertybele]

This is the mindset.  3 mass shootings in a week = cause for gun control.  It is of course our politicians who want to retain our rights under the 2A, Trump and the NRA's fault.

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

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...

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

[IsailedawayfromFR]

How can looser gun laws in Texas have done anything when the perp brought the gun from Ohio?

Fact is the gun laws came too late as they might have saved some lives if done awhile ago.

Who knows, perhaps more people could have been carrying in that Walmart on that day and stopped some bloodshed earlier.

What the author wants is to void state gun laws and make only federal gun laws permissible.

[jmyrlefuller]

And yet nobody paid attention because the NRA fired their ad agency and LaPierre kept embezzling money. They desperately want the NRA to still be relevant because the left needs boogeymen.