Houston Police Chief "Hit Bottom" After Santa Fe
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo took to Facebook Friday in the aftermath of the shooting at Santa Fe High School. "I know some have strong feelings about gun rights,” said the chief, “But I want you to know I’ve hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue.”
Chief Acevedo commands the more than 5,000 officers of Houston, America’s fourth-largest city. In his post, he describes visiting with victims of this latest school shooting, which killed ten people and injured at least ten more. "Today I spent the day dealing with another mass shooting of children and a responding police officer who is clinging to life,” he wrote, referring to the injured school resource officer and retired Houston police officer John Barnes. "I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve shed tears of sadness, pain and anger."
"This isn’t a time for prayers, and study and Inaction,” continued Chief Acevedo. “It’s a time for prayers, action and the asking of God’s forgiveness for our inaction (especially the elected officials that ran to the cameras today, acted in a solemn manner, called for prayers, and will once again do absolutely nothing).”
Chief Acevedo appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, and advocated for laws that would criminalize gun owners who do not securely store their firearms, a move that may have stopped the Santa Fe shooter from obtaining his father's guns and committing the massacre.
Meanwhile, authorities confirmed the identities of the dead. Among the ten victims were two teachers and an exchange student from Pakistan.
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