Editorial: With all his power, Abbott does nothing on gun safety

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Editorial: With all his power, Abbott does nothing on gun safety
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Few Americans have the power to change our intractable politics over guns — but not...

. Beyond this, one obvious measure that would have prevented the massacre in Uvalde, where an 18-year-old gunman legally purchased two AR-style rifles, would be raising the age to purchase such weapons from 18 to 21.

Let’s remember that weeks after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican,But for Abbott, such a measure is anathema.in Uvalde, “It is my understanding that ever since Texas has been a state, an 18-year-old has had the ability to buy a long gun, a rifle. And since that time, it seems like it has only been in the past decade or two that we have had school shootings.

And he threw shade on universal background checks. “Look at what happened in the Santa Fe shooting, a background check had no relevancy whatsoever because the killer

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