Though not in the way gun control advocates would prefer.
In 2018, seeing Republican leaders of the state or openly discussing some kind of restriction on guns … it was unusual. But the local arm of the NRA came in, and it’s always been against red flag laws. Then Abbott said didn’t see a ton of support in the Legislature, so it kind of petered out.
In the moment, everyone feels like there needs to be a serious talk about solutions. But the news cycle moves on, something else happens, or the moment passes and we end up further loosening gun laws in the state rather than putting any real restrictions in place. Mary Harris: Just a year or so after the Santa Fe shooting, people were killed at that Walmart in El Paso. Then a few weeks after that, people were killed in a shooting spree in Midland and Odessa. It was another moment where the governor and even his lieutenant governor, who’s more conservative than Abbott, started
That also seemed like a big step when it happened. Did you think that maybe this was going to change things?When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he would be interested in discussing stranger-to-stranger background checks, yes, I thought this could be a moment where things could change. But then that, too, also died out. People were riled up and passionate, and then enough time passed without the support they wanted from the Republicans in the Legislature.
. That was one of the biggest restrictions that was still on the books. So now we have unlicensed open carry of handguns and unlicensed open carry of AR-15-style rifles and the like. Then there were a couple other things that were tweaked: State legislators made it easier to
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