During a press conference Tuesday, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott made this statement about the problems in our society that are illuminated by a mass shooting like the one that just happened in his state at Santa Fe High School.
Let’s take that quote out and read it back to ourselves one more time.
Every single time there's a shooting, everyone wants to talk about what the problem is. By now we know what the problem is: the problem is that innocent people are being shot, and that must be stopped.
The Republican Party has been known for its contentless character for some time. Usually, saying something so inane, so devoid of anything meaningful, is reserved for Party members like Sarah Palin or Louis Gohmert; but you sir, Gov. Abbott, have said something that deserves this speech delivered by famed Saturday Night Live writer James Downey, in the 1995 Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison.
You can go below to watch Gov. Greg Abbott just a couple of weeks ago, relating the heroic story of how the NRA stopped gun violence.