Thanks to Arizona Agenda for collecting these reactions to the tragedy in Texas:
U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego tore into Sens. Ted Cruz and Kyrsten Sinema, throwing out fuck-yous, which offended the Republic’s opinion writer Phil Boas enough to spend a whole column on errant curse words but not a word on how to prevent these weekly tragedies. (Perhaps Gallego’s language offended some, but we’re guessing his emotion reflected millions. See also, Senator Kelly’s remark below.)
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar floated a wild conspiracy theory about the shooter, a part of the far-right playbook used to avoid contending with any real problems.
Gov. Doug Ducey said he may try to revive his abandoned “red flag law” proposal at the state Capitol. (Where the Republican-controlled Legislature would promptly fail to act.)
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Karrin Taylor Robson released a new ad showing her shooting a gun and calling herself a “proud gun owner” the morning after the Uvalde shooting.
Sinema, talking to reporters yesterday, said she’d be talking to both parties to find ways to protect kids, but also said she doesn’t think “D.C. solutions are realistic here” when asked about the filibuster.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, for his part, declared, “It’s fucking nuts to do nothing about this.”
Arizona legislators argued on the floor about whether mass shootings happen because the kids these days are godless, abortion-celebrating gender-confused animals and about how to arm more teachers.
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