A 2015 tweet by Texas Governor Greg Abbott inciting Texans to buy more guns than Californians has not aged well in light of the Uvalde school shooting.
Abbott, a Republican who's served as governor of Texas since 2015, was commenting on aarticle that said requests to buy guns had topped one million for year in the state. He wrote onthat he was"embarrassed" by the fact that Texas wasn't the number one state in the nation for new gun purchases.
"Let's pick up the pace Texans." he wrote, tagging gun rights advocacy group the National Rifle Association of America . A 2015 tweet by Texas Governor Greg Abbott encouraging Texans to purchase more guns has resurfaced in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting. Above, Abbott participates in a news briefing at the White House after an Oval Office announcement with President Donald Trump on March 24, 2017.
I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans.
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