Maybe there are some immigrants since I was there, but back then at least in Carrizo, Crystal City, and even more so in Uvalde, there were not a lot of recent immigrants. These Hispanic Texans have been in the US longer than even most of my ancestors. Look at the names of the dead: Ramirez, Garcia, Rodriguez, Torres.Д«ut is there an immigration angle? A friend who lived and worked in that area forty years ago doubts it:

Uvalde, although of course in the U.S.A., is a very Latino town. ThatвЂ™s the beating heart of citizensвЂ™ rights, including Second Amendment rights, right there.ДЄs a footnote to that, IвЂ™m wondering whether perhaps Latino government is even suckier than the Anglo-Saxon variety. ItвЂ™s hard to see how private citizens, whose primary concern is the safety of their loved ones, could do any worse of a job. She told The Wall Street Journal she saw other parents tackled, tasered, and pepper-sprayed while Salvador Ramos went gleefully about his work inside the school. The cops, annoyed at having their phone calls interrupted, acted on the time-honored principle of policing everywhere: that law-abiding citizens are much easier to beat down than are criminals and lunatics.ДЄt least one mother, Angeli Rose Gomez, who had children in third and fourth grade at the school, was handcuffed. Cops first showed up at 11:44-so thatвЂ™s a fourteen-minute delay ДЄnd what did the cops do when they got there? Why, they made lots of phone calls: for body armor, snipers, trained negotiators.ДЄround 11:54-so this is ten minutes after the cops showed up-parents began arriving and begged the cops to storm the school building. The first 911 call came in about two minutes later, at 11:30. Salvador Ramos fired off his first shots in the street outside Robb Elementary School at 11:28 a.m. In the case of Uvalde, the answer is plain. For example, we have all enjoyed the quip: вЂњCall for the cops, call for a pizza delivery, see which one gets to you first.вЂќ The Uvalde killings actually illustrated some of our favorite Second Amendment talking-points. The power-hungry government gun-grabbers will worm their way into any cracks in our defenses, and right now the NRA is showing a lot of cracks. ThatвЂ™s a big blow to our rights just by itself. I doubt those tangles will end with the NRA being dissolved, but it will be less able to stand as first line of defense for our Second Amendment rights. IвЂ™m still an NRA member and I still donate when I can, but they have foolishly gotten themselves into legal tangles that I believe with good sense, good accounting, and foresight they could have avoided.

The main thing IвЂ™d change: my 2012 description of the NRA as вЂњone of the best-organized and most effective lobbies in our political life.вЂќ Even in the worst extremes of total war, where things can get pretty indiscriminate, the deliberate targeting of children is beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, by common agreement among civilized peoples. There is no argument to be made for the mass murder of little children. I donвЂ™t believe this is a zone of cause and effect, of problem and solution: I think this is a zone of chaos a zone where stuff happens, without any rhyme or reason we can comprehend at the present state of our knowledge.ДЇor sure, the event itself is not an issue on which any sane person can take sides. IвЂ™m skeptical of talk about causes and solutions. He lived with the grandmother because his mother had thrown him out.ДЄside from noting these obvious parallels I canвЂ™t think of much to say that I didnвЂ™t say ten years ago about the Sandy Hook massacre- listen here. Before setting out on his rampage Ramos had shot his grandmother, although not fatally. Ramos killed nineteen children and two adults before being shot dead by a Border Patrol agent.

The town was Uvalde, TX the school, Robb Elementary. The killer in Texas this week was 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. LanzaвЂ™s parents had separated when he was nine he hadnвЂ™t seen his father for two years. Before setting out on his rampage heвЂ™d shot and killed his mother, with whom he lived. He killed twenty of the schoolвЂ™s children and six teachers, then shot himself. TuesdayвЂ™s horror naturally brought to mind the similar event ten years ago in Newtown, CT when 20-year-old Adam Lanza went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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