Texas governor scraps shotgun giveaway after school shooting
Source: Politico
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has scrapped plans to give away a Texas-made shotgun after a gunman used a shotgun in a Friday rampage that left 10 dead in a high school near Houston.
A spokesman for Abbott, a Republican, said Monday the campaign contest is still active, but the winner will now receive a $250 gift card.
The webpage for the contest has been changed from one featuring the governor holding a shotgun to one without any pictures, now advertising the gift card. The change was made over the weekend, the Abbott spokesman said.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/greg-abbott-scraps-shotgun-giveaway-601077
How.....thoughtful
barbtries
(28,787 posts)to convince him it was a BAD idea?!
i don't even get this country anymore. it's so entirely fucked up.
sandensea
(21,622 posts)As they say, we're not perfect - but they're nuts.
Gothmog
(145,124 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)Right now it's still about those thoughts & prayers!
maxsolomon
(33,298 posts)and that the Unorganized Militia requires no regulation.
It is blatantly obvious that it does. It needs well-regulation; with the keeping and bearing of arms should come militia duties.
Paladin
(28,252 posts)And that goes double for the shit-for-brains lt. gov., Dan Patrick.
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,102 posts)Isn't that the equivalent of paying for votes?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Probably a false alarm. But this does show that we're getting to them. They are starting to connect the dots.
Before the Parkland student uprising, this asshat would have doubled-down. We're moving the needle.
marble falls
(57,075 posts)unfair it is they had to accommodate a changing attitude towards gunzgunzgunz by a large majority of citizens who do vote..