.MaddowBlog: Hours before declaring victory in his primary, Ken Paxton offered an idiotic response to the school shooting in Uvalde.
“We can’t stop bad people from doing bad things. We can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly. That, in my opinion, is the best answer.”Right off the bat is Paxton’s case that the United States simply lacks the wherewithal to “stop bad people from doing bad things.” The problem with this, of course, is that it’s an argument against all laws, not just gun laws.
But more important is the Texas Republican’s belief that “the best answer” to gunmen massacring children in schools is arming teachers and administrators. Even if we limit the conversation to practical considerations, there’s simply no reason to see this as a serious proposal. Though the details of the murders are still coming into focus, the available evidence suggests the shooterArmed school teachers, in other words, wouldn’t have made a difference.
But practical considerations aren’t the only relevant detail: Paxton is apparently of the opinion that the solution to children getting shot in schools is to put more guns in schools. If this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. Four years ago, after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, Donald Trump — a Paxton supporter — pushed the idea of arming teachers, coaches, and principals, adding this “could very well solve your problem.
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