What Next - What Texas Can’t Forget
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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
One tragedy replaces another in the headlines—that’s just how things go.
The Texas state legislature isn’t scheduled to convene until January 2023, when the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde will no longer be fresh in people’s minds, and the momentum for changing Texas’s gun laws will be long gone. One state senator, however, won’t accept that.
Guest: Roland Gutierrez, Democratic Texas State Senator for District 19, which includes Uvalde.
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| 0:31.0 | The news cycle moves so quickly that we too often forget the things we should remember. |
| 0:41.0 | Like the shooting in a Yavaldi school, |
| 0:43.0 | they killed 19 children and two of their teachers. |
| 0:46.0 | Now to the latest on the investigation into the Yavaldi Texas Elementary School's shooting. |
| 0:51.0 | Four weeks after 19 children and two teachers were killed, |
| 0:54.0 | we're learning new details about the police response. |
| 0:58.0 | We spoke with someone who'll never forget. |
| 1:01.0 | Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez who serves the citizens of Yavaldi. |
| 1:06.0 | He spent much of the last month looking for answers. |
| 1:11.0 | Senator, what's the mood like in the town today? |
| 1:14.0 | If I were to walk around, does it still feel like this is a place where tragedy struck? |
| 1:20.0 | Absolutely, I think that it's still a town that is trying to heal, |
| 1:26.0 | trying to begin those beginning phases of healing. |
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