Texas Republican leaders’ response to the mass shooting: more guns in schools

Last year Governor Greg Abbott signed into law several measures making it easier to own and carry guns in the state

Soon after learning of yet another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school, Texas's conservative leaders quickly provided their latest, oft-repeated rhetoric of thoughts and prayers", while doubling down on the need for more - not fewer - guns in schools.

An 18-year-old shooter killed 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, about an hour and a half's drive west of San Antonio. And while such horrors happen across the US, Texas has a political culture of easing access to guns and fiercely opposing any efforts to limit the rights of its citizens to arm themselves with powerful weaponsintended for use on battlefields.