Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, called on his Twitter follows to “please pray for all those at Santa Fe high school”. Students at Santa Fe High were among them. “The ground is shifting,” said Ed Scruggs, vice-chair of the pro-gun control group Texas Gun Sense. Tom Mauser has been an advocate of tighter gun laws since his son Daniel was shot dead at Columbine high school in Colorado in 1999. “In terms of the general public,” he said, “this was another school shooting.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2018 20:37 UTC