Here's a 'systemic failure' not mentioned in the Uvalde report

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"In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, one thing is glaringly clear: The Texas way of guns is an American failure. And I say that as a Texas gun owner."

Interesting reflection by Texas resident and author Richard Parker. Via @PostOpinions:

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Opinion | I’m a Texas gun owner. The Texas way of guns is an American failure.
You can’t say Texas’s gun laws failed because they worked exactly as designed.
3:02 PM · Jul 19, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/19/texas-gun-culture-and-uvalde/

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https://archive.ph/OpZHp


In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, one thing is glaringly clear: The Texas way of guns is an American failure. And I say that as a Texas gun owner.

A three-person investigative committee from the state legislature issued a report Sunday on the May 24 shooting, assigning blame to “systemic failures,” in the words of committee chairman, Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican from Lubbock. The report found failure across the board — local, state and federal police failed; the school failed; the killer’s family failed; the people who knew him failed. But when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.

You can’t say Texas’s gun laws failed because they worked exactly as designed. Everything the shooter did was strictly legal — except for the murdering. Yet those gun laws, many of them the result of loosening over the past seven years during the tenure of Gov. Greg Abbott (R), bear plenty of responsibility for the shooting. They reflect a “systemic failure” of Texas gun culture.
Many Americans, and Texans in particular, have a mythical misconception about the state: In rootin’, tootin’ Texas, this has always been the way with guns. But that simply isn’t true. Until 1870, sure, Texas was part of the Wild West when it came to guns. Yet in 1870, that all changed: The state legislature banned carrying firearms outside the home.

Texas was the one of the first states to do so, leading the way on gun-safety laws into the 20th century. It also banned knives, daggers and other weapons from being carried in public. In the 1920s, Texas quadrupled fines for violations (and sent offenders who couldn’t pay them into prison work gangs), banned automatic weapons altogether and imposed a hefty 50 percent tax on gun sales.

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1. NRA 1934 guns licensed --- When the NRA Supported Gun Control

NRA 1934 guns licensed
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When the NRA Supported Gun Control

http://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
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2. K&R

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3. The 2nd Amendment supports regulation.

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4. Geesh, the word is even in it...