Voters in states like Texas and all across the south and elsewhere will vote the republican obstructionists' clowns right back into office.

There have been dozens of shootings and other attacks in U.S. schools and colleges over the years, but until the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead tended to be in the single digits. Since then, the number of shootings that included schools and killed ten or more people has increased. (Courtesy DailyMail)
Columbine High School, April 1999, twelve(12) slaughtered.
Red Lake High School March 2005, Seven(7) were slaughtered.
Virginia Tech, April 2007, thirty-two (32) people were killed on the campus, and more than two dozen others were wounded.
At the Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 2012, 20 first-graders and six educators were slaughtered.
Umpqua Community College October 2015, nine people at the school in Roseburg, Oregon, wounded nine others injured; the cowardly punk then killed himself.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, February 2018, fourteen (14) students and three staff members were murdered at the school in Parkland, Florida.
Santa Fe High School, May 2018, ten (10) people were murdered, most of them students.
Robb Elementary May 2022, nineteen (19)students and two teachers were murdered.

The aforementioned data tells only a small part of the story of the gun epidemic plaguing America. The bodies of the slain 10 in Buffalo, New York, were not yet buried when the Uvalde shooting occurred. Law Enforcement opines that sometimes the frequency of the shootings suggests some may be copycats. The problem is not just about the over four hundred million guns floating around in the hands of a minority of the population; the real question is, why are the laws not upgraded to render the shooters domestic terrorists?

While we are on gun ownership, it is important to understand that it is a minority of the US population that owns the bulk of the weapons floating around. Three-in-ten American adults say they currently own a gun, and another 11% say they don’t personally own a gun but live with someone who does. (PewResearch).
The police response in Uvalde, Texas was not an anomaly; cops in Connecticut waited five (5) minutes before entering the school while the gunman wreaked havoc inside.
No real action will be taken; no one will be fired; it is par for the course.….. Texas Governor Gregg Abbott lied to his state that the law enforcement response was spectacular (paraphrasing). It turned out that it was a lie, so he backtracked. The fact of the matter is that not only was their response atrocious, but rather than enter the school and do what they swore to do, they were busy outside pepper-spraying and tasing the parents of the children stuck inside.
The parents wanted to go in to save their children, they did not have guns, but the police who had guns were too pissed-scared to enter the school.
Their blind supporters at FAUX news argued had they entered, they could have been killed. Every damn person who takes the oath of a police officer knows that they may be called upon to put their lives on the line to save that of a total stranger. That is what they sign up to do; I signed up to do the same many years ago.

As I was working on this article, I received a notification that at least three people were murdered at a Hospital complex In Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are over 18,000 police departments across the United States. As I said, the smallest incident draws two, three, and up to five agencies at any given time.
More than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers are now serving in the United States, representing the highest figure ever. I keep reminding you, my readers, that they will tell you whenever there are crises like the mass killings that what is needed is more police officers. The truth is that they are lying to you, but they have already convinced their voters that what is really needed is more guns.
Texas’ Harvard educated junior Republican US Senator Raphael Cruz argues all that is needed is a good guy with a gun to counter the band guys. Ironically, the so-called good guys with guns are generally too busy harassing and brutalizing the innocent to stop any shooter.
Their bravery is reserved for unarmed African men and women; even unarmed pregnant black women stand no chance against their barrage of bullets. Those are the monsters celebrated by FAUX news.
Let us cut to the chase and stop with the bull-shit, the mainstream media won’t say it, but I damn sure will; the Republican US Senators in Texas, Oklahoma, and every state run by Republicans know that they have nothing to fear from their voters.
They understand that their voters will not punish them at the ballot box.
In Texas, neither John Cornyn, Raphael Cruz, nor Governor Gregg Abbott needs to worry about consequences to them from voters.
The sad reality is that even as those Mexicans who settled in Uvalde, Texas, grieve the loss of their children, they will march right back into the voting booths come November and vote Republican like the Racist whites who vote color over issues.

Democrats are raked over the coals by republicans for allegedly operating an open-door policy that allows ‘hordes’ of undocumented immigrants from Latin America access to the country so they may vote for them.
Of course, there is no truth to it; it is a xenophobic attack on Spanish-speaking people seeking asylum in America, but their racist constituents gobble it up like hungry free-range chickens in a Texas farmyard.
Unfortunately, even the grieving Hispanics in Uvalde, Texas vote for the racist, xenophobic republican party, hoping to be classified as the newest iteration of whiteness.
This is true from Texas to Florida and places beyond; there is no evidence that Hispanics vote with the party that best represents their interests.
In fact, new data from Gallup suggests that 26 percent of Hispanics identify as Republicans, 56 percent of Hispanic Americans identify as Democrats or as independents. If that 56 percent is split evenly between Independents and Democrats, Democrats are only pulling 28 percent of the Hispanic votes, with the other 28 percent up for grabs as swing votes by both parties. Even if the split between Democrats and independents comes down in the Democrats’ favor, it does not mean that Hispanics are turning out in droves to support the Democratic party that has been championing their causes.
More than anything this ought to be a lesson to Black activists who hitch their wagon to Hispanics when they talk about disadvantages to Black & Brown people.
These people have their own agenda but they do not mind piggy-backing on the Black civil rights struggle.
Gays and lesbians were allowed to marry and live normal lives because of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama yet many of them turn right around and vote for a Republican party that votes to take their rights at every turn.
I am not suggesting that voters should be single issues voters, what I am saying is that the Republican party cares more about white supremacy than any other issue, and so too does their voters.
The United States Senate is deadlocked at 50 – 50, this November there will be elections in which several Republican Senators are up for reelection.
There are critical issues to be addressed, voting rights, abortion rights, infrastructure, gun violence, the proliferation of white supremacist groups, and the proliferation of dangerous guns on our streets, among other issues.
All of these issues Republicans have stood in the way of solving. Voters in states like Texas and all across the south and elsewhere will vote the republican obstructionists’ clowns right back into office.