Texas Governor Gov. Greg Abbott |
Abbott was also joined at Alamo Plaza by Wayne LaPierre, an executive for the National Rifle Association.
See the Texas Tribune article: Texas has had eight mass shootings in the past 13 years, while lawmakers have steadily loosened restrictions on carrying firearms.
Texas has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
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Read: Britain ended the horror of school shootings after one single massacre [in 1996]
It’s a triumph for a country that understood immediately that a society that allows children to be shot in its schools is a society that is failing. Britain didn’t merely pay lip service to the idea that life— particularly the youngest of lives—matters. It did its best to make it so. [Ahmen]
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