Reggie Cannon, like most of the U.S. men's national soccer team, has traveled the globe representing his country and playing his sport. He grew up in Texas, some five hours from Uvalde, but he now lives in Portugal. And so, as news of May's devastating shooting in his home state left Cannon "completely distraught," his Portuguese teammates, he said, were "really confused."
"What's going on in America?" they ask whenever American gun violence makes international news.
Cannon then must explain to them: Unlike in every other developed country, in the U.