Opinion by Eugene Robinson: No, Republicans, prairie dogs don’t matter more than murdered children.
, who described how she survived the Uvalde massacre by smearing a slain classmate’s blood on herself and pretending to be dead.Roy Guerrero, Uvalde’s only pediatrician,of going to the hospital and seeing the remains of youngsters who had been slain. “Two children, whose bodies had been pulverized by the bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities were the blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them,” Guerrero said.
Republicans on the committee focused their questions and remarks on what they said was a need for more law enforcement officers to protect schools and respond quickly to threats. The GOP tactic, in the fraught days after a mass shooting, is always the same: Talk about anything under the sun except the instrument with which the atrocity was perpetrated. Talk about anything but the gun.When cornered and pressed on the subject, they sound ridiculous. Asked Tuesday why anyone needed an AR-15, Sen.
— not exactly what I would consider a “need” — and then added that “in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and, you know, other types of varmints.” Good Lord. Are we truly supposed to weigh pesky varmints against the shattered remains of murdered children?
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