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Houston Chronicle’s Nick Powell celebrates with colleagues after being named the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monday, May 8, 2023, at Houston Chronicle in Houston.That, dear readers, is what the mother of 10-year-old honor roll student Lexi Rubio, slain at Robb Elementary,after committee members left Uvalde families waiting 13 hours to testify for gun reform legislation.
The lawmakers who oppose strengthening Texas’ gun laws probably hoped dearly that the families would go home, just as they hope journalists will give up and stop covering their maddening inaction in the face of an endless stream of mass shootings in our schools, churches, homes and stores. The Uvalde families aren’t going to give up. And neither will we. This editorial board will keep calling for reforms such as universal background checks and red flag laws, which haveby keeping guns out of the hands of people at risk of harming themselves or others. That doesn’t mean we don’t share the families’ frustration and occasional disillusionment at the partisan inertia that swallows any hint of support for commonsense gun legislation.
Kimberly Mata-Rubio comforts her oldest daughter Kalisa Barboza, 18, as they spend time at Lexi Rubio’s gravesite in Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, which would have been Rubio’s 11th birthday.with our letters editor Regina Lankenau. She asked what it’s like to write about gun violence over and over again. “I’ll be honest,” Powell said. “Having covered mass shootings has changed my life profoundly. And it’s extremely hard every single time.
FILE - Reggie Daniels pays his respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School, June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. The memorial was created to honor the victims killed in the mass shooting at the school. The litany of Texas’ mass killings in just the last few years is staggering — one of which occurred in Uvalde when more than 20 people were killed in 2022.
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