With both senators from Texas receiving thousands of dollars in contributions from the NRA, any chance either of them would vote to limit rifles with high-capacity magazines from 18-year-olds or pass other laws that could help reduce the gun violence in this country is pretty much a forgone conclusion.
We did have a ban: 10 rounds capacity, which was allowed to expire in 2004. Since then, any 18-year-old has had the freedom to buy a weapon that will shoot bullets from high-capacity magazines, so lethal that even the police are afraid to confront the shooter.
Protecting a young child from the horror of watching a killer shoot his teacher and classmates; from having to play dead to save their own life; from calling 911 over and over while this monster continues the killing of anything that moves; and all the while police officers stand outside the door of their classroom waiting for orders, is the most gut-wrenching thing I think I have ever heard in my life.
In 2008 an opinion written by Antonin Scalia said, “The right to own a gun is not unlimited.” We know other countries have gun laws that work, so why can’t we?
