Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, center, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, far right, join demonstrators during a “March for Our Lives” protest for gun legislation and school safety March 24 in Houston. (AP/David J. Phillip) The three-day-long gun-debate beef this week between Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and the National Rifle Association’s Dana Loesch started with a Facebook post. “I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve shed tears of sadness, pain and anger,” Acevedo wrote on May 18. “I know some have strong feelings about gun rights but I want you to know I’ve hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue.” Acevedo has been a police officer for the past 32 years, 11 of them as chief of a major-city police force in Texas, but there had been nothing like the day he hit rock bottom — May 18 — and the three places he went that day that put him there, he told The Washington Post. To all my Facebook friends. Today I spent the day dealing with another mass shooting of children and a responding police...Posted by Art Acevedo on Friday, May 18, 2018[1][2] The first was Santa Fe High School. He raced down to the campus, about 30 miles southeast of Houston, with his bomb squad and top brass after the calls for help came in, and he arrived to find a scene of desperation, shock and pain. After hours of trying to organize the chaos, he finally welled up when he and others stopped for a prayer, and he began wondering about the victims, “not
