3 Thoughts Following the Uvalde, Texas School Shooting
5 min readMay 26, 2022
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1) The connection between pro-gun advocacy and white supremacy has never been clearer.
The white supremacist character of the pro-gun movement has been on full display in Uvalde, Texas following the horrific mass shooting on May 24 in which two adults and nineteen (mostly Latino) children were murdered by a former student armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle.
Law enforcement officers refused to confront and stop the (lone) shooter until 376 of them had arrived on the scene (including Border Patrol agents and…