HILTZIK: Just before a shooter killed 20, NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) What is most horrifying about the killings in El Paso, Texas, where a man openly carrying a rifle strolled into a Walmart in a shopping mall and opened fire, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 40, is not that they happened. Nor even that they reflect a circumstance of American life that has become so mundane that politicians can pull a premasticated