rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons,
last week beto o rourke disrupted the texas governor s press conference on the uvalde massacre telling greg abbott that the shooting was totally predictable and that he has done nothing. there was one particularly outraged politician on stage sitting in the back row in a blue shirt who interrupted beto saying, sir, you re out of line calling him a sick son of a b for politicizing the tragedy. that individual is the republican mayor of uvalde. his name is don mclaughlin. he was elected to his first term in 2014 and hats won re-election three times since. but for someone who is the mayor of a town reeling from an unthinkable tragedy where funerals began today and the 21 dead, including 19 fourth graders, mclaughlin has been pretty quiet at these press conferences, saying very little of substance. what he does speak, he does as his party does, doming the issue