NYT counts hours since Texas shooting: How long before it's not too soon to debate gun control?

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 11/06/17 09:05 AM EST

The New York Times' editorial board is counting the hours since the mass shooting this past weekend at a Texas church and calling for Congress to take action on gun control.

In an editorial published Sunday, the editorial board named the locations that have been the sites of past mass shootings, including Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla.

"The latest, in the small Texas town, involved a man reportedly using a rifle to kill at least 26 people while they worshipped," the editorial board wrote. "Still, Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing. Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done."

The editorial board said GOP leaders offer their thoughts and prayers and then warn people not to "politicize" the tragedy by "debating gun controls that might prevent such mass killings from happening again."

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