Santa Fe unlikely to be center for gun control activism after school shooting
Cheryl Darling sat behind the counter of Easy Cash Pawn & Jewelry off of Texas 6 about three miles south of Santa Fe High School, a rack of rifles and handguns on display for sale to her right. She reminisced about a time when no one thought twice about showing off Winchester rifles on gun racks in the back window of their pickup trucks. “Everybody had gun racks. Everybody had a rifle,” Darling said. “We’d come back from Christmas holidays, and we’d say, ‘Oh, look at my new .270 [Winchester rifle].’ Nobody ever thought about shooting anybody. We got into fights all the time, but it’s just a different mindset today I think, you know? Because we were all armed and nobody thought once about shooting their classmate.” The closest thing to gun control back then was when a teenage Darling and her boyfriend were denied entry to a nearby drive-in theater on Interstate 45 because he had a gun on the rack in his truck. “I remember him being so furious about it, ‘No way, I’m not going to leave my gun here,’” Darling recalled with a chuckle. “At the time it was kind of shocking … Now it just seems normal. It was just a different time.” To read this article in one of Houston’s most-spoken languages, click on the button below. In the wake of the May 18 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, in which 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis is accused of killing 10 people […]
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