No Wonder They Support Trump

Some 72 hours after the Uvalde shooting, thousands of devotees showed up at the annual NRA convention just 250 miles away in Houston.

It's not just about guns, it's a culture under siege, attendees told @zachdespart @lomikriel https://t.co/v03fB67gXy

— Rebekah Allen (@rebekahallen) May 28, 2022

"Every time we have a whack job that shoots up people, it puts us under stress,” he said.

It’s all about them, too.

In interviews with The Texas Tribune, a dozen NRA convention attendees were horrified by the Uvalde shooting. But they were also unified in their belief that the shooter’s access to guns was not to blame. 

 Instead, they attributed this attack and others to a broader breakdown in society wrought by the removal of God from public schools, the decline of two-parent households, a perceived leniency toward criminals, social media and an increase in mental illness.

Which still doesn’t explain why it only happens in America. 

Meanwhile, among the people really under stress:

“Miss Gonzalez, are we safe?” a third grader asked their teacher.

“That really got me,” Gonzalez said, trying to hold back tears. “That was something that just really hurt my heart.”

Teachers are at their breaking point. Students, too. By @brianlopeztxhttps://t.co/A6cZG3yTMV

— Reese Oxner (@reeseoxner) May 27, 2022

As a teacher, not only am I responsible for curriculum, but I have to be a counselor at times a parent, a guardian, a cheerleader, supporter, a nurse, a custodian and now I need to be a police officer,” Patterson said. 

 A day after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom in Uvalde one of Luaren Gonzalez's students asked her a gut-wrenching question. 

 “Miss Gonzalez, are we safe?” her third grader asked her.

Deal with that, you NRA motherfuckers. You have your heads so far up your asses you can’t see daylight. 

Ron Acierno, executive director of the UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center, said it is “insane” that people are asking how teachers can be better prepared for this situation when people should instead be calling for less gun violence and more gun reform. 

 “Are we really at that point where that's a valid question?” Acierno said. “It's like saying, how can we prepare children to be sexual exploitation or sex trafficking victims?”

"But, muh freedumb!"

I’ll retire to bedlam…