Texas Governor Greg Abbott is bought and paid for by the NRA

 

Headline:  Texas Public Radio, 5/29/2022

A lawyer for the Sutherland Spring victims said Abbott’s characterization that the events of Sutherland Springs prove background checks are not a viable solution is misleading. 

"That is not true. The opposite is true,” attorney Jamal Alsaffar told TPR. “The federal court found after hearing months of evidence — thousands of pages of documentary evidence that, in fact, the federal government was liable in the Sutherland Springs case because background checks would have worked." 

Moments after hearing Abbott's take on Sutherland Springs, Alsaffar was inundated with calls asking him to correct the record. 

Intentional or not, Alsaffar said Abbott is again misinforming the public.

Oh, it's intentional.

Original 5/28/2022 post, "Texas Governor Greg Abbott tells NRA he's fine and dandy with continued massacre of children", starts here. 

Top headline:  Texas Tribune, 5/25/2022

Bottom headline:  CNN, 5/28/2022

CNN excerpt:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott canceled his planned appearance at the NRA convention and instead pre-recorded a video in which he was dismissive of calls for gun reforms. 

"Remember this: There are thousands of laws on the books across the country that limit the owning or using of firearms, laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people in peaceful communities," he said.

Is this similar to the message he shared with residents of Uvalde?