Ken Paxton said the Uvalde shooting was part of a “plan” by “God.”

In June 2022, shortly after the May 24, 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Paxton was asked what he would say to parents whose children had been killed. The available reports consistently describe him as saying that God has a plan or that there is a purpose in what God does.

The wording in the input is therefore substantially supported, but it compresses the reported statement. The sources generally attribute to Paxton the wording “God has a plan,” rather than a direct statement that the shooting itself was explicitly “part of a plan by God.” Some headlines use the stronger formulation that the massacre was part of God’s plan, while the underlying descriptions indicate that Paxton was discussing divine purpose and what he would tell grieving parents.

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