Today In Teenage Texas

ABC News:

9 teenagers shot, wounded at after-prom party in Texas  —  None of the injuries are considered life-threatening, police said.  —  At least nine teenagers were injured following a shooting at an after-prom party in Texas, according to authorities.  None of the victims' injuries are considered life-threatening.

Mirna Alsharif / NBC News:   9 injured in Texas after post-Prom party ends in shooting

WFLA-TV:   9 teenagers shot at after-prom party in Texas

Aliza Chasan / CBS News:   Texas prom after-party ends with gunfire, 9 wounded

Cnnwire / ABC13:   At least 9 teens wounded in shooting at Texas after-prom party, sheriff's department says

Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News:   9 teens wounded at prom after-party shooting in Texas

Madeleine Hubbard / Just The News:   At least 9 injured in Texas post-prom party shooting

Fox News:   Texas ‘after-prom party’ devolves into shooting, leaving 9 people wounded

ABC News would like to add:

More than 11,500 people killed in gun violence so far in 2023

More than half of all gun violence deaths this year were deaths by suicide.

POLITICO piles on.

Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States.
It’s Not Even Close.

America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them.

One last note: The telly just reminded me that Houston's cheating Astros were known from their inception in 1962 until 1964 as the Colt .45s. (Not to be confused w/ the former Washington Bullets of the NBA.)