And the Brass Balls Award is presented to…

Today’s Brass Balls Award is presented to Texas Governor Greg Abbott who just held a televised news conference to decry the recent rash of mass shootings in his state…on the same day that a batch of news laws went into effect loosening restrictions on the ownership and possession of guns.

Who signed those bills? Well, he did, I believe.

The new laws open up more opportunities for Texans to own and carry firearms and store ammunition in public places. From churches to public schools to foster homes, the laws also loosen restrictions on where a firearm is permitted to be carried.

Today, Abbott bemoaned the tragedy of mass shootings in Sutherland Springs (27 dead), Santa Fe High School (10 dead), El Paso (22 dead) and now Odessa-Midland (7 dead), despite the presence of god knows how many “good guys with guns” wandering the Texas streets—including several cops who were wounded by yesterday’s shooter before authorities finally caught and killed him in a stolen mail truck.

Total dead in these four shootings: 66.

“We must keep guns out of the hands of these killers while protecting our Second Amendment rights,” Abbott said.

Right.

This is the same governor who, in 2018, told the National Rifle Association convention, “The answer to gun violence is not to take guns away, the answer is to strengthen the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. The problem is not guns, it’s hearts without God.”

So the answer, clearly, is to allow more and more guns in more and more places. After all, this is Texas, and this is America. We wouldn’t have it any other way.