Ken Paxton.Photo: Gabriel Aponte/Getty
In a Mayinterviewwith right-wing radio host Trey Graham, 59-year-old Paxton said he would be “devastated” if he lost one of his children, but added that he would tell other parents who lost a child in the shooting that “there’s always a plan.”
“If I lost one of my children I’d be pretty devastated, especially in a way that is so senseless and seemingly has no purpose,” Paxton said. “I think … I would just have to say, if I had the opportunity to talk to the people I’d have to say, look, there’s always a plan. I believe God always has a plan. Life is short no matter what it is. And certainly, we’re not going to make sense of, you know, a young child being shot and killed way before their life expectancy.”
Paxton has been vocally opposed to gun regulations, even in the immediate wake of the shooting in Uvalde, when many other lawmakers have called for reforms that could help prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
“We can’t stop bad people from doing bad things,” Paxton said on Fox News just hours after the shooting took place. “We can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly. That, in my opinion, is the best answer.”
More recently, Paxton said the federal government has “no right to take guns away from law-abiding U.S. citizens, or restrict their use.”
And while he’s spoken out against “bad people” doing “bad things,” Paxton himself has been mired in controversy, and wasindicted on felony securities fraud chargesmonths after taking office as attorney general in 2015. He has pleaded not guilty and the trial has yet to take place.
In 2020, the Associated Press reported that the FBI was investigating claims that hehad abused his officeto help a wealthy donor. There, too, Paxton has denied wrongdoing.
As Salon reports,Paxton also took a leading rolein the failed Supreme Court case aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election, whichJoe Bidenwon overDonald Trump.
source: people.com
