Rube Reaper
Elite
And left unsaid, but clearly implied, was this: This slaughter was not really about guns.
Except that we know that's not true.
Start here: To accept Abbott's explanation that what happened in Uvalde was about mental health and not guns, you have to believe that the entire rest of the world doesn't have mental health challenges.
Why? Because study after study has shown that school shootings -- much less the broader category of mass shootings -- are remarkably more common in the United States than in the rest of the industrialized world. According to a CNN review from 2018, there were at least 288 school shootings in the US in the previous 9 years, which was 57 times (not a typo) more than other G7 countries combined. COMBINED.
www.cnn.com
Except that we know that's not true.
Start here: To accept Abbott's explanation that what happened in Uvalde was about mental health and not guns, you have to believe that the entire rest of the world doesn't have mental health challenges.
Why? Because study after study has shown that school shootings -- much less the broader category of mass shootings -- are remarkably more common in the United States than in the rest of the industrialized world. According to a CNN review from 2018, there were at least 288 school shootings in the US in the previous 9 years, which was 57 times (not a typo) more than other G7 countries combined. COMBINED.
Analysis: What Greg Abbott gets *totally* wrong about the Uvalde shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this week tried to explain why a teenager had murdered 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde.
www.cnn.com
