What does a new fence in Uvalde mean for Texas gun violence? Not a damn thing.
Fence construction continues as students arrive in a school bus at Uvalde Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Uvalde CISD started classes over three months after the Robb Elementary School massacre on May 24.In Uvalde, the children of Robb Elementary — those who survived the mass shooting, that is — are back in school. A newly installed 8-foot-tall security fence is meant to protect them from the horror that invaded their world in the spring.
• At least 16 mass shootings took place nationwide during Labor Day weekend, leaving at least 10 people dead, according to“How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand?” Phoenix police chief Jeri Williams asked after the recent mass shooting in her city. A gunman had emerged from a hotel and begun randomly shooting, killing two people and wounding two police officers.
“It’s not because their citizens are more loving or kind,” the late James Atwood, a Presbyterian minister, wrote in his 2012 book “America and Its Guns.” It is something else, something simple: Holland, Japan, Britain, Australia, New Zealand — the list could go on — do not permit easy access to guns.
In Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881, city marshal Virgil Earp, his two deputized brothers and their pal Doc Holliday shot it out with the Clanton brothers at the O.K. Corral, because the brothers were flouting the town’s law requiring visitors to disarm. “It’s an unsettled question whether states can restrict guns to people under 21,” he said. “There are court cases going both ways. . . . This is one of many issues the Supreme Court is going to have to take up in the coming years.”
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