The Real Reason the Shootings Never End Is Our Leaders Don’t Fucking Care.

Ray Katz
5 min readMay 25, 2022
Pro-death governor Gregg Abbott

How about we tell our leaders — all of them — that we know they actually support school shootings and nightclub shootings and subway shootings and mass murder in general? They take money and repeat talking points handed to them by the NRA. Literally. We keep having so many ever-bloodier mass murders because our leaders don’t care.

This will be a quick review of the excuses we’ve heard again and again from “leaders” year after year for their willful expansion of the “rights” of mass murderers to commit mass murder.

  1. We need more Jesus.

Texas Governor Greg (“Blood on his Hands”) Abbott loves this one. For unknown reasons, he’s had the nerve to deploy this excuse right before subsequently passing laws ensuring bigger (and more) future mass murderers. Greg said: “The problem is not guns, it’s hearts without God.”

No, Greg. The problem is YOU. For every killing, there is a second gunman, a supplier. That supplier is YOU. After the Santa Fe massacre, you called for a commission to study gun violence, then only two weeks later you spoke to the NRA blaming gun violence on not enough Christianity. Then YOU signed into law the bill which allowed Texans to carry guns without licenses or training. Literally any homicidal idiot — even someone as cruel and…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

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