Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. “Every time we have a whack job that shoots up people, it puts us under stress,” he said.
Brown Convention Center downtown, Schwartz said he knew the shooting would once again inflame the tense debate about gun control in the U.S., which he said always seems to vilify responsible gun owners like himself who simply want to protect the Second Amendment.
“I couldn’t imagine sending my kids to school and then not coming home.”īut as he admired the display of new assault rifles at a booth in the sprawling George R. “It is just unimaginable,” said Schwartz, a 67-year-old insurance broker in Las Vegas, Nev. HOUSTON - When Guy Schwartz heard about the shooting at an elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde this week, his heart sank, both as a father of two and a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association who for months had eagerly awaited this year’s convention in Houston, the first after the pandemic canceled it for two years.