Are Calls for Gun Control Intensifying Around Uvalde Anniversary?

While polling numbers rarely sway people into changing their views on a given subject, at least not consciously, they can make lawmakers pause for a moment and reevaluate their positions. After all, if they alienate the voters, they might well be out of a job, and too many of them enjoy the power and perks of being a member of Congress or a state legislature.

But even when polling numbers don’t say anything about guns, it seems the media is bound and determined to try and sell gun control like they do.

As we find ourselves just past the two-year anniversary of Uvalde, some want to make the claim that gun control calls are getting louder.

A criminal investigation in Texas over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting is still ongoing as Wednesday marks one year since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde.

The continuing probe underlines the lasting fallout over Texas’ deadliest school shooting and how the days after the attack were marred by authorities giving inaccurate and conflicting accounts about efforts made to stop a teenage gunman armed with an AR-style rifle.

The investigation has run parallel to a new wave of public anger in the U.S. over gun violence, renewed calls for stricter firearm regulations and legal challenges over authorities in Uvalde continuing to withhold public records related to the shooting and the police response.

Here’s a look at what has happened in the year since one of America’s deadliest mass shootings:

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CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL INTENSIFY

President Joe Biden signed the nation’s most sweeping gun violence bill in decades a month after the shooting. It included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and added more funding for mental health programs and aid to schools.

It did not go as far as restrictions sought by some Uvalde families who have called on lawmakers to raise the purchase age for AR-style rifles. In the GOP-controlled Texas Capitol, Republicans this year rejected virtually all proposals to tighten gun laws over the protests of the families and Democrats.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has also waved off calls for tougher gun laws, just as he did after mass shootings at a Sutherland Springs church in 2017 and an El Paso Walmart in 2018. The issue has not turned Texas voters away from Abbott, who easily won a third term months after the Uvalde shooting.

So the calls for gun control intensified, but there’s absolutely nothing about them intensifying?

Seriously?

I mean, I expected at least some kind of effort to support the claim, but there’s nothing. They even note that Abbott failed to support gun control and still easily won his gubernatorial campaign just months after the shooting itself.

If that’s not enough for you, let’s look at last year’s congressional race. Rep. Tony Gonzales represents Uvalde. He faced a primary challenge after his vocal support for gun control from GunTuber Brandon Herrera. Despite what was frankly a disgusting campaign of out-of-context quotes and a pathetic attempt to paint the Hispanic Herrera as a white supremacist, Gonzalez was only able to squeak out a win in the run-off by around 360 votes.

If the people of Uvalde and the surrounding area were so dead-set on gun control, then how did a social media influencer with no previous political experience almost win?

I’d say the report was trying to gaslight people, but if so, it’s the most clumsy attempt at gaslighting I’ve ever seen.

This actually just looks like wishful thinking from a media that desperately wants gun control to win and can’t seem to figure out how they keep losing. I could tell them, but they’re not going to like it.