Even the murder of 19 elementary-school children in Texas could not deter the US gun industry from enjoying its annual celebration of the weapons that slaughtered them.
Ahead of its three-day convention in Houston, Texas, last weekend, the National Rifle Association (NRA) offered its “deepest sympathies” to the families of students, aged eight to 11, and two of their teachers, killed in a “horrific and evil crime” in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday last week.
In the next sentence, the NRA absolved the gunmakers and their US$20 billion-per-year industry, which claims the lives of more than 100 people in