We're going to televise a high school football game Thursday night because sometimes, a high school football game is not just a game.
And El Paso Eastwood, playing Plano senior high Thursday at the Dallas Cowboys star in Frisco, is one of those games.
We're televising that game because of the shooting in El Paso last month, and yet we couldn't even make it a month in Texas before we had another mass shooting.
There were 22 killed in El Paso, seven in Odessa, and there's just nothing we can do.
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A member of the Texas house, Matt Schaefer says he knows what he will not do. He will not take away a Texan's God-given right to own a gun. God cared so much about that, it was only thirteen-hundred years, A.D., before the gun was invented.
Maybe if Adam had a gun, he wouldn't have eaten the fruit. Schaefer says these gun laws don't work because bad people would still do bad things.
So why do we have any laws? We have drug laws, people still use drugs. We have speed limits on the highway, people still speed. We even have laws against smoking in Texas, and people still smoke.
But gun laws don't work. More than 90 percent of Americans think we can do more, except the people we pay to do that.
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- Dale Hansen Unplugged: How stupid do you have to be?
- WFAA set to broadcast Plano Senior High School vs. El Paso Eastwood High School football live in primetime on Sept. 5
- Will common ground on gun safety be easier to find after multiple mass shootings in Texas?
- Dale Hansen Unplugged: When we cancel games because we're afraid to live, the bad guys win
- Dale Hansen commentary: 'White guys like the 2 shooters this weekend never represent the race or religion'