After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws.
gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting last May.
Gutierrez told ABC News that none of the proposed bills currently have a Republican willing to co-sponsor, but that all of them would eventually have companion bills in the Texas House of Representatives. "Most of these are nonpartisan issues," he said. Last May, an 18-year-old gunman armed with an assault-style rifle attacked Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 students and two of their teachers. It was the second-worst school shooting in United States history, and it has spawned several lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Texas lawmakers filed more than 30 gun regulation bills ahead of the 2022 Texas legislative session, the first such lawmaking session since the Robb Elementary shooting. Other proposals include raising the age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21, implementing red flag laws, and mandating background checks for all gun sales.
"Uvalde is a difficult issue for lawmakers in that one of the more common-sense gun reforms that has been proposed, that is raising the age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21, could have been relevant and prevented, if not the massacre itself, then the scale of the massacre," Jones said. Others in the Legislature are already looking beyond gun legislation and dealing in the political realities of the gun-enthused state.
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