But the governor was confronted by a Democratic rival, who interrupted the press conference to accuse him of deadly inaction. “This is his fault,” scolded him Beto O’Rourke, a staunch supporter of gun control who aspires to compete with Abbott for his job in November.
“You’re not doing anything!” he told her. “This is totally predictable from the moment he decided to do nothing.”
Abbott, like other members of the Republican Party, is a member of the NRA. Former President Donald Trump, still very powerful in the country, will speak on Friday, May 27, at the group’s annual meeting.
“The link between power and this lobby is deep,” said Gildardo López, who recalled that presidents from Ulises Grant to John F. Kennedy have been part of the organization.
Racism and weapons
With its fight against the movements that fought for the civil rights of African-Americans in the United States, it also begins the time in which the NRA is more related to groups in favor of racial segregation.
“It becomes an issue of segregation, whoever owns weapons should be to defend themselves against blacks and Hispanics,” he says.
In recent years, several mass shootings in the United States have had a racist undertone.
On May 14, an 18-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist shot 10 people to death at a store in Buffalo, New York, in an area with a large African-American population. The shooter declared himself “fascist”, “racist”, “anti-Semitic” in a 180-page manifesto.