@MaliniGuptaMD I lost a dear colleague to patient violence in 2017. It changed my life in so many ways. It cast a permanent shadow over the bright light of optimism we had both shared about the practice of medicine.
Tonight, in Mineral Wells, Texas
When a @GregAbbott_TX supporter laughs, yes, laughs out loud so everyone could hear, while Beto described the massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Beto quite appropriately lets loose with a MF.
Yep.
It was a pretty good one too.
As a combat veteran, I can tell you: I would never want to be armed with only a pistol against an assailant with an AR-15.
We can’t just arm our teachers. We need to pass common sense policies like an assault weapons ban to stop these attacks.
Going downtown to protest the NRA & GOP in #Houston tomorrow? Please be prepared and take care of yourself. Allow me to offer tips based on my decades of experience as a lawyer (tho this is NOT legal advice), activist, and person who hates hot weather. A thread:
Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away…
These are the tapes: https://t.co/uwZYoP7jnF