“The annual NRA convention gets underway in Houston today, less than 300 miles from Uvalde,” CBS News gravely warns.
Less than 300 miles!
Because the shooting and the convention are occuring in the same state, some news organizations want to make the location and timing of the convention appear to be a tragic irony, or to contend that it is insensitive to hold the convention so “close” to the site of the shooting.
The distance from from Houston to Uvalde is about 277 miles, which is a bit less than the distance between New York City and Richmond, Virginia. No one would ever describe an event that occurred in the Virginia capital as occurring in the shadow of Manhattan’s skyscrapers.
Credit the Detroit News columnist who at least had a sufficient grasp of geography and wrote that the NRA “will hold its annual convention this weekend 4 ½ hours east of Uvalde in Houston.”