Three days after the Texas shooting, Governor Abbott plans to speak at the annual meeting of the NRA gun lobby, surrounded by those who want to prevent tougher gun laws by any means.
Three days after an 18-year-old shot dead 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in his state with a semi-automatic rifle.
After he had posted the murder weapons on Instagram days ago - and nobody looked twice because it is common practice for a young man to acquire a weapon that can kill as many people as quickly as possible.
That must be stunned.
The mighty NRA preaches, "The only thing that can stop an armed bad guy is an armed good guy."
For many Americans, the right to a gun, which they see as enshrined in the constitution, outweighs the recurring massacres in schools, supermarkets and universities.
So it's lip service when Joe Biden asks, "How can we keep letting this happen?"
That the Buffalo and Uvalde massacres will be followed by something this time - for real this time!
- is still unlikely.
The debate about stricter gun laws, like abortion rights, has become a culture war between the authoritarian right and the liberal left in America.
One end is not foreseen.
Only this much is certain: He is becoming more and more dogged.