One critic called the display 'a grotesque caricature of sympathy.'
As Trump later echoed, the Texas Republican said that"the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"—a theory that, asit Friday,"utterly failed" in Uvalde and reveals"the bankruptcy of the arms race theory of violence prevention."
Gun control advocate David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, also took issue with the popular right-wing refrain of"armed good guys" stopping"armed bad guys."Friday."Stop endangering ... the lives of our students, teachers, and first responders."Our work is licensed under Creative Commons . Feel free to republish and share widely.
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