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    Michael Hiltzik: Just before a shooter killed 20 in El Paso, the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Aug 06, 2019 3 minutes

    What is most horrifying about the killings in El Paso, Texas, where a man openly carrying a rifle strolled into a Walmart in a shopping mall and opened fire, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 40, is not that they happened.

    Nor even that they reflect a circumstance of American life that has become so mundane that politicians can pull a premasticated statement of "thoughts and prayers" out of their files and post it on Twitter even before the blood has dried. (President Trump was quick out of the box to uselessly

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