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Tag Archives: shootings

People at the hearing spoke about how El Pasoans remain on edge, wary of going shopping or taking their kids to school.

by Andrea Valdez

Editorial: Reckoning with El Paso

People like to believe things are getting better—but what happened in El Paso underscores just how little has changed.

Fri, Nov 1, 2019 |

As I write this editorial, I’m exactly three months into my tenure at the Texas Observer. In that time, I’ve had the good fortune to hear readers express ge...Read More

Larry McQuilliams

by Andrea Grimes

The Mental Gymnastics of Excusing White Men’s Violence

Tue, Jan 6, 2015 |

a white Christian man plans and executes a terrorist attack in Texas’ capital and he’s just a nice guy who lost his way, a Renaissance Faire enthusiast in a...Read More

Larry McQuilliams

by Katie Matlack

My Dogsitter, the ATX Shooter

Thu, Dec 18, 2014 |

For the past three weeks, my neighbors and I have wrestled with the fact that the man we knew, Steve McQuilliams, scarcely resembled the figure who shot up down...Read More

bullets

by Cindy Casares

Gun Violence is More than Just Mass Shootings

Thu, Jan 31, 2013 |

Do we want to address all gun violence or do we only want to try to prevent mass shootings?...Read More

A Few of Houston’s Accidental Gun Deaths

Fri, Dec 21, 2012

The renewed debate over gun control has lately settled into two broad camps: those who think more guns in the right hands would reduce violence, and those who t...Read More

Don’t Overreact to UT Shooting

Mentally unstable person with assault rifle does not call for militarizing campus

by Chris Tomlinson

Tue, Sep 28, 2010

A disturbed man took an assault rifle onto the University of Texas at Austin campus and shot himself Tuesday, law enforcement officials say. Early reports from ...Read More

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