Shot After Shot...

Hard for the Schloss-Blog to turn attention away from the horrible shooting in Uvalde, Texas. And hard not to.

This being Memorial Day weekend, we start by thanking all those who have served and all those serving now for just that - their service.

But for me it comes back to the fact that the same people - the same politicians, that is - who want to "protect life" by banning abortion are the same people - uh, politicians - who won't protect life by approving universal background checks for gun purchases.

Or by mandating vaccinations for COVID. 

With 19 kids ages 9 and 10 now dead though, the attorney general of Texas, in the wake of the shooting, is suggesting that teachers be armed.

I'm sure teachers can't wait to be walking around, packing. In their free time, they can patrol grocery stores in Buffalo.

That AG, Ken Paxton, is under indictment for securities fraud, but Texans don't care. They gave him the nod in the Republican primary for state attorney general.

Texas is the same place where the conspiracy theory has been suggested to me that Biden is stacking voters by housing illegal immigrants who will eventually be granted citizenship.

As long as he's under indictment anyway, maybe Ken Paxton ought to look into it.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is suggesting that armed guards - more armed guards, should be placed at every school as a deterrent to crazed gunmen like the one who rampaged through Robb Elementary.

Except, Ted, studies show that more guns mean more bullets flying and more people wounded and/or dying in those situations.

As I post this on this Sunday, the National Rifle Association convention is wrapping up in Houston, several hundred miles away from Uvalde. 

Speakers there spent the weekend lamenting that with the shooting at Uvalde, liberals are now coming for your AR-!5.

No, but they want to shove it up your ass.

How could you watch a minute of the coverage of this event and not get emotional? TV anchors I watched, Kate Bolduan of CNN and Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, broke down and cried on air doing interviews with parents, experts, witnesses and survivors of prior incidents.

In the last three weeks, 21 were wounded in shootings in Milwaukee, 10 more died and 3 were wounded in Buffalo, one died and 4 were wounded in Laguna Woods, California, and now Uvalde, Texas.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, meanwhile, will be signing into law legislation that makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to sue gun companies and will also make it difficult for federal statutes to be upheld over Arizona law in state.

May he be stung by a scorpion.

Bottom line: Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos, 18, is not old enough to buy beer in Texas, but he can buy automatic rifles and ammunition. And he did.

The Sandy Hook shooter, who took 26 lives, was confronted almost immediately and it was over within about 10 minutes. At Uvalde, despite the protestations and pleas of parents whose kids might have been trapped in the building, Texas law enforcement didn't enter the building for almost an hour. It is entirely possible that some victims who died might have been wounded and perhaps saved by an earlier intervention.

Watch the video of the parents screaming for law enforcement to help their kids.

Now imagine it's your kid, your grandchild, in there and you not knowing what the delay is in going in after them.

It just seems inappropriate this week to end the blog with "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, and here's to you, Mrs. Robinson," but I just did anyway.

Definitely more Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.