Did you actually watch the live press conference? He gave no new info. He said he asked around town (did not mention any actual mental health experts) and everyone said mental health was the issue. So, that is what he is running with. He then spent more time talking about how the police need the support of the mental health professionals than the family of the dead kids. He absolutely did not use this press conference to update. It was a bunch of excuses that they made up last night to avoid the gun issue. |
It could have been had the border agent not taken out the shooter. Or if the other law enforcement who were there had not engaged him. It could have been much worse. He also said, "As horrible as what happened.... it could have been worse. The reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. They showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. And it is a fact that because.... [of their actions]..... they were able to save lives. Unfortunately, not enough." |
Correct. Just more NRA propaganda. |
Every minute of it. And, yes he did give new information regarding posts the killer made in advance of his heinous act. |
It could have been 0. If the shooter had not been able to buy any guns. |
Actually, those were known well in advance of this press conference. Abbott also said that there was no warning. Right after the kid posted he was going to kill his grandmother, he killed his grandmother and he was going to kill at a school. Seems like warning to me - granted it was less than an hour but don’t pretend there wasn’t warning. Abbott also started with the shooter was a high school drop out and failed to mention how to obtained not one, but two, assault rifles and also posted photos of those on social media. That seems like warning to me. |
So he gave proof of the complete failure of the GOP’s cockamamie nonsense? People have been begging the blocking GOP to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill and… nothing. So take your faux concern and yeet it into the sun. I hope you forget to vote this November. |
Abbott is always about political stunts. Stopping trucks from entering texas, abortions law, changing the law to let these type of terrorist buy weapons, etc etc. It’s time to kick Texas out of the Union. |
How about we just kick the Republicans out of office. That state is blue and the GOP has cheated to keep it looking red; no reason to inconvenience millions of Democrats there for the crimes of the Republicans. |
What new information. Everything he said about the shooter had been on the ABC special an hour earlier. S I said earlier, a bunch of white male twits. |
| I have heard there is mounting pressure for Abbott to resign. |
You’re too simple to understand. |
| Beto is not done because there is a long way to the election. But this will play only to his base which in Texas is 25% of the vote. The middle in Texas is about 30%. That group leans right center. This will not play with them. This was a bad day for Beto. But other events may turn the tide. If I were running against him in Texas I would wait until September and go up with an ad that has Beto crashing in and the mayor saying this was no place for this conduct and Texas deserves better. |
Great because then Beto could run an ad with Abbott saying Texas deserves better and O'Rourke says, "I agree and here I am." |