Amy Goodman
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After Santa Fe HS Shooting, Texas Lawmakers Have “Focused on Anything But Guns”
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May 21, 2018
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27:34Now PlayingWe look at the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings at U.S. schoolsFriday morning in Texas, 17yearold Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered Santa Fe High School and shot dead 10 peopleeight fellow students and two teachers. He used a shotgun and a .38 revolver taken from his father to carry out the murders. Ahead of the attack, Pagourtzis posted on his Facebook page a picture of a Tshirt he wore Friday that read “Born to Kill.” Some Texas officials responded to Friday’s shooting with calls for prayers and blamed abortion and violent video games. The incoming National Rifle Association president, Oliver North, blamed Ritalin for school shootings. We get an update from Kolten Parker of The Texas Observer and Ed Scruggs of Texas Gun Sense.
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