For a moment Friday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was in two places at once.
At about 3:30, the National Rifle Association played videotaped remarks from the governor in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Abbott had originally planned to attend the conference in person, but he canceled Thursdayfollowing the mass shooting that occurred at a Uvalde elementary school on Tuesday afternoon.
“In Uvalde, the gunman committed a felony under Texas law before he even pulled the trigger. It is a felony to possess a firearm on school premises, but that did not stop him. And what he did on campus is capital murder. That is a crime that would have subjected him to the death penalty in Texas,” Abbott added.
The status quo is unacceptable. This crime is unacceptable. We're not going to be here and talking about it and and do nothing about it.”
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